Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: FAT/VFAT and the sync flag | From | OGAWA Hirofumi <> | Date | Sat, 05 Oct 2002 00:33:50 +0900 |
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"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> writes:
> On 3 Oct 2002, Scott Bronson wrote: > > | Can anyone tell me if the VFAT filesystem actually recognizes the sync > | flag? Early in 2.4, it appeared that it was ignoring it. > | > | However, now that a lot of USB devices are VFAT, this gets pretty > | important. > > Now, for you first question, I hope that Ogawa or Al or Christoph > et al can answer it, but my guess is, No, VFAT doesn't > recognize the sync flag. I base that on grepping for > s_sync and for MS_SYNCHRONOUS in linux/fs/{fat,vfat,msdos} > and finding s_sync a few times, but not finding MS_SYNCHRONOUS > at all.
You are right. The fatfs just ignore the sync flag. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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