070818 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am Samstag 18 August 2007 04:51:50 schrieb Crayon Shin Chan: >> On Saturday 18 August 2007 06:30, Philip Webb wrote: >>> I've successfully mounted the stick & copied a file onto it: >>> it seems you have to 'umount' it before the file is really stored. >> For performance reasons a write-cache is used - >> changes to the filesystem aren't effected immediately. >> Issuing a 'sync' command or 'umount' will force the changes >> to be written immediately. > It's not only for performance reasons. > This behavior saves the stick from unnecessary writes > to the FAT or temporary files which would otherwise decrease its lifespan. I've also noticed that it seems to take noticeably longer to copy files, the more data is already on the stick: can anyone explain ?
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