Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 17 May 2005 09:59:52 +0200 | | From | Colin Leroy <> | | Subject | Re: Sync option destroys flash! |
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Hi,
> According to the man pages for mount, FAT and VFAT > file systems ignore the "sync" option. It lies. Maybe it use to be > true, but it certainly lies now.
Yes, it does lie. I'm the author of the O_SYNC patch for fat and vfat, and I'd like to point out that I did test a few flash drives (and hard drives) extensively (during about a week) with this flag, and they did not die on me. As other people said, I think the O_SYNC handling does exactly what it says, and if it doesn't do what you want, tell HAL not to set it (There must be a way).
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