[arch-general] Hacking into HAL's mount process

[Robert Howard]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:

On 13/03/2010, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com> wrote:
> By default HAL adds the flush flag wh...
Funny..I remember the very reason for making "flush" a default mount
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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