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On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:06:50 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote: |
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> Actually, that's a good point. All that writing to the FAT would use |
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> those flash blocks a lot, which would indeed wear it out. |
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I trashed a Crucial 1GB drive in a few weeks, until I found out about |
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this change. |
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> Windows does sync by default as well. But, it's sync is extremely |
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> fast for some reason. |
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It's not whether it does sync be default, that is down you your |
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(auto)mounter, nothing to do with the kernel. The change is that in sync |
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mode, the kernel used to update the FAT after each file, now it does it |
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after each block. That's why it is so slow and destructive. |
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