On Thursday 02 March 2006 06:03 pm, James Knott wrote:
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.
I thouroughly agree. This is an oversight that probably shouldn't have happened. But then, I'd rather they focus on including DVD playback. I see more and more the Major Suppliers of Marketing Solutions are Making Sales pitches aimed at Multimedia Systems on our desktops with Mostly with a Single source of DRM content from one Major Software company.
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.
Eewww! That blows. I really haven't had an issue since I installed the "fix" mentioned on bugzilla. Of course, I still cant' auto-connect to my WiFi network, but that's another story. -- kai - www.perfectreign.com www.livebeans.com - the new NetBeans community