Re: [Usability] tools on the desktop

From: Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>
To: Jason Hoover <jasonhoover verizon net>
Cc: usability gnome org
Subject: Re: [Usability] tools on the desktop
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:01:00 +0100

On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 20:30 -0400, Jason Hoover wrote:
> Any distro worth it's weight in CD's has sync writes on by default for
> removable/hot-plug volumes for that very reason.

Sync writes have the side effect of destroying Flash-based media as the
system can't batch up writes.  I believe recent Ubuntu's have turned off
sync mounts for some USB sticks for this reason.

Ross
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