"Greg Freemyer"
On 12/1/06, B.Weber@warwick.ac.uk
wrote: 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)
-o flush works here, and looking at the changelogs for 10.1 it appears it was added then. My USB devices appear to be mounted with it automatically. The kde and gnome automount things have support too. See http://benjiweber.co.uk/screenshots/usb-opts.png the Flushed IO option.
I'm not sure what the difference between this and what is mentioned in the 2.6.19 changelog. Perhaps someone could enlighten me.
We developed this patch in january and it has now been ended in 2.6.19. So, there should be no difference.
_ Benjamin Weber
Interesting.
It had not occurred to me to check 10.1, but at least one of my 10.1 machines is using the flush option as well.
Obviously the good folks at Novell have backported this patch and added it to their 2.6.18 kernel.
No - we developed it ourselves and forward ported it and finally got it merged into 2.6.19, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126