On 1/16/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm wondering if we should be reporting this to the kernel guys. I > > see this on *all* linux systems with kernel 2.6, but I'm not sure > > about 2.4. But, I think I'll try enabling some options that Richard > > mentioned first. > > Kernel guys know it very well. They recently implemented the sync option > for FAT filesystems, and this is turned on by default. > > Unluckly, sync is really OK for FAT partitions on an HD, but not for USB > devices. I hope they will realize soon that not only it degrades > performance of USB drives, but it also wears out flash memories really fast.
Actually, that's a good point. All that writing to the FAT would use those flash blocks a lot, which would indeed wear it out. Windows does sync by default as well. But, it's sync is extremely fast for some reason. > > m. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
