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@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.
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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.
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