From: Pat Erley <paterley@mail.drunkencodepoets.com>
To: Jim Crilly <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.7 (future kernel) wish
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:05:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040104160507.22f6b9da.paterley@mail.drunkencodepoets.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FEE4BD9.5000000@why.dont.jablowme.net>
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:19:53 -0500
Jim Crilly <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net> wrote:
> >>I also believe Windows mounts any removable device
> >>synchronously so that if you do pull it out prematurely the damage done
> >>is limited.
> >
> >
> > Eww, I hope not, that would be excruciatingly slow. It might adjust the
> > buffer writeback to be really short (even nearly immediate) but
> > synchronous I/O is a different story, and much slower.
> >
> > Rob Love
> >
> >
>
> Perhaps synchronous was the wrong term =) But it does atleast seem to do
> less buffering for removable devices or I could just be fooled by
> something else slowing it down.
check under device manager and notice that there is an option checked on USB media disks that says "SYNC"? I'm pretty sure that's pretty much synchronous transfers I assume.
Pat Erley
(Just delt with a neuros vs mvp3 chipset problem and noticed it)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-05 7:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-23 22:42 Jos Hulzink
2003-12-26 23:38 ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-26 23:57 ` David B. Stevens
2003-12-27 6:51 ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
2003-12-28 3:03 ` Jim Crilly
2003-12-28 3:08 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-12-28 3:13 ` Rob Love
2003-12-28 11:17 ` Kevin Krieser
2003-12-28 11:23 ` Gaël Le Mignot
2003-12-28 3:11 ` Rob Love
2003-12-28 3:19 ` Jim Crilly
2004-01-04 21:05 ` Pat Erley [this message]
2003-12-28 3:57 ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
2003-12-28 4:33 ` Elladan
2003-12-30 14:20 ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-31 0:18 ` Jim Crilly
2003-12-30 15:41 Pacheco Jason NPRI
2003-12-30 16:18 ` mjt
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