On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:27 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
Hi.
Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> IIRC it depends on the size of the storage, i.e. if it is below a
> certain size it won't get moutned sync because then it's probably some
> kind of a flash device which can only be written a certain number of
> times. In that case, sync is a bad idea because it will wear your device
> much faster.
Right, that is the heuristic we use.
Hmm. The following is an excerpt from my laptop's /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda /media/CCYU_TECH vfat pamconsole,noatime,async,exec,noauto,managed
0 0
/dev/sdb10 /media/usbdisk ext3 pamconsole,noatime,async,exec,noauto,managed
0 0
/dev/sdb12 /media/usbdisk1 ext3 pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/sdb13 /media/MacOSX hfsplus pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/sda is a 64MB USB flash device
/dev/sdb is a 15GB hard disk drive in an USB enclosure, sdb10 being a quite
small partition.
So small partitions get explicitly mounted async, but isn't that the default,
anyway?
Oops, embarrassing, my bad. That should be 'sync' instead of 'async'.
Will change that, maybe it can get into FC-3 otherwise it will have to
be an update.
David