Removable storage devices and sync

Ralf Ertzinger fedora-devel at camperquake.de
Thu Oct 28 15:10:57 UTC 2004


On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:53:49AM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:

> No, option 'sync' only if the filesystem is smaller than 2GB otherwise
> neither 'sync' nor 'async' options (which will default to 'async').

OK, you've lost me. Wasn't the logic that mounting sync increases the
number of write accesses to the device, which is bad for flash devices,
thus small devices (== more likely to be flash) are mounted async?

At least that is how I understood Nils' mail.




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