Hello,
On Fri, 10 May 2013 22:47:01 -0400
Curt Howland wrote:
> It seems logical to me that there would be a way to say "sync
> immediately" or "do not buffer", so that when the drive was
> inactive it could be yanked without danger of corruption.
IMHO the core of the problem is not in the cac
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On Saturday 11 May 2013, Kailash Kalyani was heard to say:
> Hi Curt,
Good morning.
> Caching and I/O scheduling give performance benefits which is why
> they're used with most media.
As I said, I don't mean media where transaction times are criti
mounting the devices.
However, fstab entry "sync" or "async" controls what happens:
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html
Sincerely,
Kailash
> From: howl...@priss.com
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Unmounting/Ejecting removable media
> Date: Fri
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Dear Debian Users,
I was contemplating today the fact that I know several people who have
scrambled various removable disks and thumb drives by failing
to "unmount" or "eject" before removing them.
Mostly this has happened in Windows, not because
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