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On 1/16/06, b.n. <brullonulla@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I'm wondering if we should be reporting this to the kernel guys. I |
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> > see this on *all* linux systems with kernel 2.6, but I'm not sure |
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> > about 2.4. But, I think I'll try enabling some options that Richard |
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> > mentioned first. |
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> Kernel guys know it very well. They recently implemented the sync option |
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> for FAT filesystems, and this is turned on by default. |
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> Unluckly, sync is really OK for FAT partitions on an HD, but not for USB |
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> devices. I hope they will realize soon that not only it degrades |
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> performance of USB drives, but it also wears out flash memories really fast. |
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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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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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> m. |
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