On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 4/9/07, Adam Tauno Williams
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) ===
Hey, that's pretty cool! Thanks for finding that.
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