Bug#309591: pmount: DANGEROUS default settings (sync)

2005-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:07:48AM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:09:00PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi Sjoerd, On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:20:13AM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: Just uploaded hal 0.4.7-3sarge1 to testing-proposed-updates. This removes the sync

Bug#309591: pmount: DANGEROUS default settings (sync)

2005-05-20 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:09:00PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi Sjoerd, On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:20:13AM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: Just uploaded hal 0.4.7-3sarge1 to testing-proposed-updates. This removes the sync option from the default setup and adds a warning to the example fdi

Bug#309591: pmount: DANGEROUS default settings (sync)

2005-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Martin, On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 05:32:34PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Steve Langasek [2005-05-18 4:38 -0700]: I read the thread and it convinced me to change the pmount default from sync to async (which would be a trivial change) and replace the --async option with a --sync option.

Bug#309591: pmount: DANGEROUS default settings (sync)

2005-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Sjoerd, On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:20:13AM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 05:32:34PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Steve Langasek [2005-05-18 4:38 -0700]: I read the thread and it convinced me to change the pmount default from sync to async (which would be a

Bug#309591: pmount: DANGEROUS default settings (sync)

2005-05-18 Thread Andreas Mohr
Package: pmount Version: 0.8-1 Severity: grave Hi, apparently the sync option really should *NOT* be used, especially not by default: http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/22/111748.html Probably the best way is to get rid of the sync default in favour of an async default,

Bug#309591: pmount: DANGEROUS default settings (sync)

2005-05-18 Thread Steve Langasek
tags 309591 sid thanks On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:51:42AM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote: Package: pmount Version: 0.8-1 Severity: grave apparently the sync option really should *NOT* be used, especially not by default: http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/22/111748.html

Bug#309591: pmount: DANGEROUS default settings (sync)

2005-05-18 Thread Andreas Mohr
Indeed, grave may have been too high, but then the Severity description forgot to include the possibility of actually killing hardware, which should be rated rather high IMHO. I didn't know about the Sid tagging (Sid here, with a custom 2.6.11-ck8 kernel), sorry. The LKML thread indicates that

Bug#309591: pmount: DANGEROUS default settings (sync)

2005-05-18 Thread Martin Pitt
tag 309591 sarge thanks Steve Langasek [2005-05-18 1:05 -0700]: apparently the sync option really should *NOT* be used, especially not by default: http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/22/111748.html This may or may not be a grave bug, but AFAIK it doesn't apply to

Bug#309591: pmount: DANGEROUS default settings (sync)

2005-05-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:25:55PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Steve Langasek [2005-05-18 1:05 -0700]: apparently the sync option really should *NOT* be used, especially not by default: http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/22/111748.html This may or may not be a

Bug#309591: pmount: DANGEROUS default settings (sync)

2005-05-18 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! Steve Langasek [2005-05-18 4:38 -0700]: I read the thread and it convinced me to change the pmount default from sync to async (which would be a trivial change) and replace the --async option with a --sync option. The advantages (don't destroy flash hardware and greatly speed up the

Bug#309591: pmount: DANGEROUS default settings (sync)

2005-05-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.05.18.1732 +0200]: - Mount devices 'async' by default instead of 'sync'. This will avoid physical damage of flash chips due to exaggerated updating of inode/FAT structures and greatly speed up the write throughput. On the bad

Bug#309591: pmount: DANGEROUS default settings (sync)

2005-05-18 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 05:32:34PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Hi! Steve Langasek [2005-05-18 4:38 -0700]: I read the thread and it convinced me to change the pmount default from sync to async (which would be a trivial change) and replace the --async option with a --sync option. The