On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:19:38AM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
Nope, the point of mounting 'sync' is to ensure that all IO
is done
synchronously to ensure that data is written to the disk in the event
that the user yanks out the device without properly unmounting it.
Yes, I know that. But why the different handling for large and small
devices? Should not all external devices be mounted sync? I can
pull out an external hard disk just as easy as an USB stick.