On Saturday 04 March 2006 04:53, kai wrote:
On Friday 03 March 2006 11:23 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2006-03-02 at 21:03 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Actually, I agree with SuSE: mounting "sync" is the correct thing to do with automounted pluggable drives.
The user could unplug the device before the kernel has even decided it's time to write to it.
If a drive takes an incredibly long time to write to, a user may just give up in frustration and unplug it anyway. If SUSE insists on using sync, they'd better find a way to make it usable. I have a 1 GB pen drive. I do not want to wait such a long time to write to it. Right now my choices are to manually mount it or plug it into my notebook, booted into Windows, and pull the file over the network.
I understand your frustration, but the proper "Linux way of things" is to manually mount things, IMO.
Ewww! Who would want to do that? <seroius mode> A Lot of us Actually
I can imagine that - for the hardcore geeky type who still thinks of the CLI as a usable interface - this might be a good option. The Best option The CLI still blows the crap outta the GUI and will continue to do so for the foreseable future However, the rest of us want - no, expect - the drive to be available for writing and reading seconds after plugging it in. WindBloZe this Aint
Actually, it won't let you close the Konqueror window until it has stopped writing, so there's no issue, AFAIK.
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