From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261727AbULaSbJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:31:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262136AbULaSbJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:31:09 -0500 Received: from news.cistron.nl ([62.216.30.38]:28124 "EHLO ncc1701.cistron.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261727AbULaSbI (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:31:08 -0500 From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" Subject: Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:31:07 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Cistron Group Message-ID: References: <200412311741.02864.wh@designed4u.net> <2b8348ba041231094816d02456@mail.gmail.com> <200412311322.14359.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ncc1701.cistron.net 1104517867 4773 62.216.29.200 (31 Dec 2004 18:31:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@cistron.nl X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <200412311322.14359.gene.heskett@verizon.net>, Gene Heskett wrote: >Let me toss this out for discussion. > >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. Google for "supermount". Mike.