Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Copying USB->USB: sync after every file

[Frank Steinmetzger]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:37:11PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:14:14 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>
> > > > I need a pointer, please. Something is amiss on my laptop’s
> > > > setup. When I copy a number of big files (i.e. videos) from one USB
> > > > device to another, it starts to read the file, then after a few
> > > > seconds starts to write to the destination and only *after* that
> > > > file has been completely written, it continues with the next file.
> > >
> > > What are the mount options on the USB drives?
> >
> > My external HDD:
> > /dev/sdb1 on /run/media/frank/Volume type fuseblk
> > (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096,uhelper=udisks2)
> > My USB stick: /dev/sdc1 on /run/media/frank/SYSRESC type vfat
> > (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
>
> It's the flush option, from man mount:
>
> flush
>     If set, the filesystem will try to flush to disk more early than normal.
>     Not set by default.

That's what I thought at first, too. But this is the stick that has the
flush option and the problem occured when I copied from stick to HDD.

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