From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262166AbVAAAIE (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:08:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262167AbVAAAIE (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:08:04 -0500 Received: from out004pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.142]:54672 "EHLO out004.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262166AbVAAAH5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:07:57 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Organization: Organization: None, detectable by casual observers To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:07:55 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: Tom Felker , ofeeley@gmail.com, William References: <200412311741.02864.wh@designed4u.net> <200412311322.14359.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <200412311548.11614.tfelker2@uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200412311548.11614.tfelker2@uiuc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412311907.55626.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out004.verizon.net from [151.205.52.185] at Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:07:56 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 31 December 2004 16:48, Tom Felker wrote: >On Friday 31 December 2004 12:22 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: >> There are some times when the usual 5 second flush schedule should >> be tossed out the window, and the data written immediately. A >> quickly unpluggable usb memory dongle is a prime candidate to bite >> the user precisely where it hurts. Floppies also fit this same >> scenario, I don't know at the times I've written an image with dd, >> got up out of my chair and went to the machine and slapped the >> eject button to discover to my horror, that when my hand came away >> from the button with disk in hand, the frigging access led was now >> on that wasn't when I tapped the button. > >For that you should add "sync" as an option when mounting the > filesystem, in which case writes won't return until the data has > actually been written. man mount doesn't mention that being > implemented for FAT, though - is that accurate, and if so, > shouldn't it be? Don't know about vfat, which is how I mount a floppy, but I just put that in the options list in /etc/fstab & will test it the next time I need to sneakernet something small around here. Many thanks for what might be a valuable bit of info! -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.31% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.