Hi! Can anyone help me to figure out if the following behavior is a bug or not?
Under SHR (both testing and unstable), drives and partitions not
listed in fstab are automounted using the sync option which is
*very* slow and possibly damaging to flash media.
Slowness: While attempting to untar a
I'd like to submit a bug report with a suggestion to remove the -o
sync option, but before I do, I wonder if anybody can tell me if
there is a valid reason to be using sync on all automounted drives.
The reason is - if mount is not sync, something is writtent to the device,
and then device is
Since users don't like to manually unmount their devices, and developers
really don't like when users blame them for unrecoverable data loss,
default is to mount sync.
Thank you for reminding me of that. You might be right that it is was
a developer's choice, but if so it was a very poor
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