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["Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/9/07, Adam Tauno Williams <adamtaunowilliams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I always get a desktop icon in KDE which has a Safe Remove option.
> > Hmm, I'll have to look for that.  I hadn't noticed it.
>
> GNOME offers the same thing,  right click -> eject
>
> You can't just yank removable media in any OS.

In SUSE 10.0 and prior you could by default.  ie. It was mounted in
sync mode.  (no caching)

But user complaints about how slow USB drives were caused Novell to
design a new FAT32 mode that is a comprise between "sync" mode and
normal cached mode.

> From the 2.6.19 readme:
===
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)
===

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century
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