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Idea
#1795: Write "on fly" on USB devices
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Written by sharkp the 29 Feb 08 at 20:36.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
In my opinion it would be better to improve write on fly on usb devices, and not in a second time. It's more usefful and you don't risk to unplug your USB pen without the safe removing.
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logfish wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:52
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Disabling buffers on slow devices would mean a performance hit. Some devices are not even able to deal with random unplugging.
It's best to keep mounting/umounting across the board to keep the user from making mistakes.
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jelmer wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:57
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Lots of rewrites can also hurt the lifetime of your USB device, depending on what actual disk it's using.
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Lee wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:58
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If I understand your wording correctly, what you want can be accomplished with the "sync" option for mount.
BUT.. there IS no safe way to simply pull out a storage device and know that your files are intact. The only reason that idea is popular is that Microsoft and PCs made a huge mistake, and now, everyone is used to it. The sooner the idea dies, the better.
The real question becomes... what's a simple, natural, intuitive way for people to signal that they're done with a disk, and for the operating system to finish writing to it? And then, how can the operating system intuitively signal that it's OK to remove the disk?
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nixeagle wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 21:00
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nathan_s you noticed this is a duplicate, but forgot to let the admins know this fact by clicking the "report duplicates" button. I've done so for you :).
Perhaps that button needs to be clearer/easier to see.
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changlinn wrote on the 26 Mar 08 at 12:59
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Duplicates shouldn't be marked down simply cause they are duplicates, as I understand it the votes are merged into the original, so marking it down could possibly damage the original.
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