Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2006-03-02 at 20:37 -0500, James Knott wrote:
It used to work quite well, until someone at SUSE decided to "fix" it, by mounting those drives with the sync option.
Actually, I agree with SuSE: mounting "sync" is the correct thing to do with automounted pluggable drives.
The user could unplug the device before the kernel has even decided it's time to write to it.
If a drive takes an incredibly long time to write to, a user may just give up in frustration and unplug it anyway. If SUSE insists on using sync, they'd better find a way to make it usable. I have a 1 GB pen drive. I do not want to wait such a long time to write to it. Right now my choices are to manually mount it or plug it into my notebook, booted into Windows, and pull the file over the network.