Re: [PATCH] let fat handle MS_SYNCHRONOUS flag

[OGAWA Hirofumi]

Colin Leroy <colin@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> It adds MS_SYNCHRONOUS support to FAT filesystem, so that less
> filesystem breakage happen when disconnecting an USB key, for 
> example. I'd like to have comments about it, because as it 
> seems to work fine here, I'm not used to fs drivers and could
> have made mistakes.

What cases should these patches guarantee that users can unplug the
USB key?  And can we guarantee the same cases by improving autofs or
the similar stuff?

I'm not sure sync-mode is proper for it...
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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