Em 16/06/2014 19:52, "Neil Bothwick" <n...@digimed.co.uk> escreveu:
>
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:58:07 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote:
>
> > Regarding umounting, it umounts the drive after it is removed, which
> > looks strange (to say the least) to me.
>
> Udev doesn't know you want to remove the drive until you've pulled it.
> Apparently, a future release of systemd will be able to predict when you
> want to remove the drive as it will control everything you do.
>

:-)  well, by 'unount' I mean getting rid of the mounted tree and mount
point.

> > Did I miss something? Or, in other words, is there a way of forcing
> > operations on a usb flash media to always flush buffers and/or caches as
> > fast as possible?
>
> Mount it with the sync option. On the other hand, this increases the
> number of writes to the drive, quickly killing performance and slowly
> killing the drive.
>
>

Thanks for this, I will use it. This system is an embedded one, the usb
stick is for eventual data base backups. I'll remember to do as few writes
as possible to it.

> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> We all know what comes after 'X', said Tom, wisely.

Thanks again,
Francisco

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