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@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: On 13/03/2010, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
