Re: Hot plugged volumes in the notification area
- From: Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>
- To: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Hot plugged volumes in the notification area
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:45:56 +0000
On Mer, 2004-12-01 at 20:03, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="uws">
>
> > A simple solution to this problem is to use a 'sync' mount. This works
> > fine when copying files to my USB disk (mounted by autofs btw, but that
> > shouldn't matter).
>
> Contrary to popular opinion, vfat doesn't support sync. :-)
Patches have been posted so it should arrive fairly soon. 2.6.10 should
also fix a pile of other kernel side problems with USB remove of live
"disks". So for planning please assume it'll get sorted by the next
Gnome stable. I believe FreeBSD already correctly handles sync mounted
fat file systems.
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