[arch-general] Re: USB Buffering Issue

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

The 02/12/11, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 02 Dec 2011 14:37:59 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:

> >> How do you umount the USB device?
> >
> > I've done it both from KDE and the command line, but I don't think that really
> > matters.  It's the fact that large files appear to be copied instantly that is
> > frustrating.

But this isn't the problem, IMHO. The umount call should *not* end until
all data are written to the disk or it's likely going to corrupt the
filesystem in USB device.

> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_Storage_Devices#Mounting_the_USB_stick_as_normal_user_using_Fstab_with_flush_option

Nice.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht