Shriramana Sharma wrote:
On 8/19/05, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
Samjnaa Tattvavaadin wrote:
Well Shriramana Sharma uses this alias of Samjnaa Tattvavaadin in Google Accounts and forgot to change the mail settings to say Shriramana Sharma in the from field. Apologies. [I am Shriramana Sharma and I am Samjnaa Tattvavaadin. Anybody interested in understanding the meaning of these words can mail me offlist. ;)]
As far as I know, USB drives don't have to be unmounted, as the data is written immediately. This means that it's safe to unplug, when the light stops flashing.
Then why does Win 2K and Win XP have a feature: "unplug this USB device" (or something similar)? IIRC someone on nntp://novell.support.suse.linux.professional told me that the data needs to be flushed to the drive.
I thought we were talking about Linux. If the data is written immediatelty, there is no need to flush the cache, as the cache isn't used for writing. As I recall, this is a fairly recent development, as earlier versions of SuSE did require unmounting USB devices. Compare with floppies. You've never had to unmount floppies in DOS or Windows, as the data was written immediately. However, in Linux you had to, as the data was cached, before writing to the floppy.