Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] usb write delay
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:15:43
Message-Id: 20101126081314.3fd8a336@osage.osagesoftware.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] usb write delay by Florian Philipp
1 On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:31:48 +0100
2 Florian Philipp wrote:
3
4 > Am 23.11.2010 04:52, schrieb David Relson:
5 > > I'd like to reduce the time delay between a command or program's
6 > > writing to a file on a flash drive and when ext2 actually writes
7 > > the data to the drive. How can I do this?
8 > >
9 >
10 > Mount with the option commit=x where x is a time in seconds. 0 means
11 > default (=5).
12 >
13 > Hope this helps,
14 > Florian Philipp
15 >
16
17 It doesn't work for my USB memory stick which has the default
18 filesystem, i.e. vfat
19
20 According to mount's man page, commit=n is for ext3.