From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265080AbTL1LYT (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 06:24:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265081AbTL1LYS (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 06:24:18 -0500 Received: from smtp-100-sunday.noc.nerim.net ([62.4.17.100]:13061 "EHLO mallaury.noc.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265080AbTL1LYR (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 06:24:17 -0500 To: "Kevin Krieser" Cc: "'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" Subject: Re: 2.7 (future kernel) wish Mail-Copies-To: nobody References: <011801c3cd34$239b0020$6e01a8c0@athlon2400> From: kilobug@freesurf.fr (=?iso-8859-1?q?Ga=EBl_Le_Mignot?=) Organization: HurdFr - http://hurdfr.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1F2C 9804 7505 79DF 95E6 7323 B66B F67B 7103 C5DA Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:23:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: <011801c3cd34$239b0020$6e01a8c0@athlon2400> (Kevin Krieser's message of "Sun, 28 Dec 2003 05:17:11 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Kevin! Sun, 28 Dec 2003 05:17:11 -0600, you wrote: > XP came with an option that I've seen on USB hard drives where it won't > cache writes by default. It is in Device Manager, and called Optimize > for quick removal. You can also enable write caching, which requires > the use of the Safe Removal icon. > I don't recall 2000 having this option. > With Linux, I'm just ingrained to umount first. Or with Linux, you can use the "sync" mount option (or dirsync) to force direct write of data. -- Gael Le Mignot "Kilobug" - kilobug@nerim.net - http://kilobug.free.fr GSM : 06.71.47.18.22 (in France) ICQ UIN : 7299959 Fingerprint : 1F2C 9804 7505 79DF 95E6 7323 B66B F67B 7103 C5DA Member of HurdFr: http://hurdfr.org - The GNU Hurd: http://hurd.gnu.org