"Greg Freemyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > FAT: Add "-o flush" mount option for fat for removable media devices >> > (USB flash-based memory devices, MP3 players). Mounting with -o flush >> > tells FAT to write things to disk as quickly as possible. It is like >> > -o sync, but much faster (and not as safe). Think of it like a fast >> > "async" mount (commit) >> >> -o flush works here, and looking at the changelogs for 10.1 it appears it >> was added then. My USB devices appear to be mounted with it automatically. >> The kde and gnome automount things have support too. See >> http://benjiweber.co.uk/screenshots/usb-opts.png the Flushed IO option. >> >> I'm not sure what the difference between this and what is mentioned in the >> 2.6.19 changelog. Perhaps someone could enlighten me.
We developed this patch in january and it has now been ended in 2.6.19. So, there should be no difference. >> >> _ >> Benjamin Weber >> > Interesting. > > It had not occurred to me to check 10.1, but at least one of my 10.1 > machines is using the flush option as well. > > Obviously the good folks at Novell have backported this patch and > added it to their 2.6.18 kernel. No - we developed it ourselves and forward ported it and finally got it merged into 2.6.19, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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