Re: [PATCH] let fat handle MS_SYNCHRONOUS flag

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:40:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > AFAIK, EXT2 doesn't update all metadata synchronously in sync-mode.
> 
> It does.
> 
> I'm actually surprised to discover that [v]fat doesn't support `-o sync'. 
> It's probably a quite practical way of handling these various hotpluggable
> gadgets and would be a popular addition.
> 
> It does have the downside that it'll teach our users bad practices....

Dunno. Right now they'll still probably have an occassional kernel
crash to contend with from device disappearing from under an fs, but
at least they won't have lost all the photos on their camera...

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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