On 03/14/2010 07:41 PM, Robert Howard wrote:
Yes, it's all placebo effect. What seems like faster transfers is really the use of write caching and not a good idea for removable media. Could leave the data and filesystem in inconsistent states if the device were accidentally removed or if power failed.
On Mar 14, 2010 4:33 AM, "Ray Rashif"<schivmeister@gmail.com> wrote:
By default HAL adds the flush flag wh... Funny..I remember the very reason for making "flush" a default mount
On 13/03/2010, Nilesh Govindarajan<lists@itech7.com> wrote: option was because users were frantically trying to convince everyone around that it would allow for optimal performance of flash-based storage, aside from running the risk of losing data without it.
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@Ray, If the device has small buffer size, then it takes lot of time. Who want's to shell out more bucks for this simple flush thing to get a device with bigger buffer size. @Robert, Power would fail if there was no UPS. But I have one. Also, my transfers are super slow. It takes more than 15 minutes to transfer 500 megs !! Previously I used to boast among my friends for Linux being fast with USB transfers. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com