Messages in this thread | | | From | BROWN Nick <> | Subject | RE: Removable media bug | Date | Wed, 5 May 1999 15:11:56 +0200 |
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>> If you want to flush the blocks of a disk on a umount or a mount you can do >> so btw - there are ioctls for this. >You cannot rely on the user to do something to protect the integrity of >his data, as he/she/it will simply forget.
To me, this is the critical point in the whole debate - as long as fstab has the "user" option, and programs like KDE let you mount and umount a volume by clicking on it, we can't expect very much from the user.
Perhaps the mount and umount commands should do the flushing work here, so as not to get in the way of the opimisations of mtools.
Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)int)
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