Excerpts from Denis A. Altoé Falqueto's message of 2010-06-28 18:33:30 +0200: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Pálffy András Gergely > <pagesailor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Works here too. Great, thanks. > > > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > >> I have made a patch for /usr/share/hal/fdi/20-storage-methods.fdi to force > >> async file transfer for vfat filesystems by commenting out flush and sync as > >> valid options from the list. > >> I checked the thing, now I'm getting the old high speed USB transfer. > >> Do take a look at it, and comment. > > Yes, but you should keep in mind that you'll spend extra time when you > want to unmount your USB stick. So I prefer a "slow" transfer and a > fast unmount, because usually I'm in hurry for taking off the USB > drive and the unmounting visualizations are not very smart (only in > KDE SC 4.4 it is really usable). Actually I was recently wondering a bit about the unmounting part, especially with USB sticks. I do have udev rules, taken from the wiki, in place that handle automatic mounting. There's also a unmounting part, which afair removes created dirs, but I guess this is only called after the usb drive is removed. It did happen more than once to me that a file transfer seemed to be complete, but when I just removed the drive, the data was gone. Is there a way to provide automatic safe removal? Manual unmounting is a bit of a PITA, as you need to have a terminal ready, guess sdN and type a line, where the device guessing part is the most problematic. I tend to use /dev/sdN to make sure that I remove the device from all mount points. Thanks for any advice. -- Regards, Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
