[arch-general] USB Buffering Issue

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Friday 02 Dec 2011 11:54:45 Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> Hi,
> by default linux mounts the devices with the async option.
> You can mount using the sync option, so you are sure that the I/O is
> made synchronously.
> Just remember: "In case of media with limited number of write cycles
> (e.g. some flash drives) "sync" may cause life-cycle shortening."
> (from man 8 mount)

Yes, that's probably it.  I don't see "sync" in the mount options, so I'm 
guessing it's being mounted async.  Shouldn't udev be taking care of this for 
usb drives?

By the way, I'm mounting the drive via udisks (from KDE).  So noone else is 
seeing this?

Paul