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On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:04:54 -0600 |
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Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:52 PM, David Relson |
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> <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I'd like to reduce the time delay between a command or program's |
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> > writing to a file on a flash drive and when ext2 actually writes |
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> > the data to the drive. How can I do this? |
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> In addition to Florian's tip, you can also remove the delay completely |
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> by mounting with sync option. This may negatively impact performance. |
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> Alternatively you can leave it caching as normal and then issue the |
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> "sync" command when you're done doing your USB operations and it'll |
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> flush remaining data to the flash drive immediately. (I think |
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> unmount/eject will do this too.) That's what I usually do. |
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Sync really, really slows down writes, at least for a solid state |
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drive. I'm looking for a way to avoid that slowdown without the |
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dangers of a user yanking a flash drive before the cache is |
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completely written out. |
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