"Greg Freemyer"
All,
I was just reading the kernel newbies page about the new features in 2.6.19: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_19
And saw: == FAT: Add "-o flush" mount option for fat for removable media devices (USB flash-based memory devices, MP3 players). Mounting with -o flush tells FAT to write things to disk as quickly as possible. It is like -o sync, but much faster (and not as safe). Think of it like a fast "async" mount (commit) ==
Does anyone know if this is in the SUSE 10.2 kernel?
And if so, if the SUSE automount logic is using this flag instead of -o sync like 10.1 does?
From our kernel-source changelog: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun Jan 15 19:06:01 CET 2006 - mason@suse.de Update series.conf to reflect my patch status Add missing mason patches (and submit them to mainline) Add fat -o flush mount option for best effort constant writeback to removable media (faster O_SYNC alternative). [...] - patches.suse/fat-o-flush: add -o flush for fat. So, it's there since 10.1 and still in 10.2 - and is now upstream. It should be used by our tools already - we implemented it after too many complained about the slow USB speed with 10.0, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126