Hello, Bjorn Tore Sund wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, January Weiner wrote: [...]
- the automatic mounting of USB devices with "sync" option -- welcome back to floppy-and-DOS-era (why not mount the hard disk that way, too?)
Hadn't noticed, what's the problem?
- I think it appears to be much slower since you have to wait (i. e. for the next prompt) until the data is written - in opposite to nosync whitch writes to the cache very fast and syncs to the disk in background. - USB sticks, CF cards, ... can only be written a limited number of times. With sync option, the directory indexes get updated more often (every time you do something with one file - copying of 100 files may mean 100 writes) and the lifetime of your USB stick may be reduced. There was an interesting discussion about this in suse-linux some time ago. If you understand German, you can find details in the list archives. Yours, Christian Boltz -- D: is just a data disk. That's why it's called "D", for "DATA". C: is the Windows OS disk, so it's called "C", for "CRAP". [David P. Murphy]