* Yossi Kreinin <[email protected]> [2006-10-28 13:15]: > WHY do I have to manually mount/umount these fucking things, > and why is silently corrupting my files a reasonable way to > enforce this wonderful policy?
The alternative is to mount them with synchronous data writing. Which they are (at least used to be) too slow to do usefully if you do bulk transfers of any size; you'll be sitting around waiting for files to finish copying that would normally be transferred in the background. But if you're only transferring small chunks of data back and forth, async mounting is a good idea. * Peter da Silva <[email protected]> [2006-10-28 16:00]: > You'd think that USB mass storage devices would expose an API > that hid the file system details from the host, but no... What makes you think the API wouldn't be hateful? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
