Re: Misleading file transfer speed to USB flash drives

[Nate Nielsen <nielsen-list memberwebs com>]

c saveanu laposte net wrote:
> In conclusion, the progress dialog should probably indicate
> that the files are not immediately written on the disk. I
> don't know what's the best solution for this problem but it is
> really very, very annoying to see quick data transfer and in
> fact not to really have it happen.

When the file system is mounted with the sync option (as is done
automatically by most distros) the progress dialog matches the actual
data transfer.

Cheers,
Nate