On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:27 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > Nils Philippsen <nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > IIRC it depends on the size of the storage, i.e. if it is below a > > certain size it won't get moutned sync because then it's probably some > > kind of a flash device which can only be written a certain number of > > times. In that case, sync is a bad idea because it will wear your device > > much faster. Right, that is the heuristic we use. > Hmm. The following is an excerpt from my laptop's /etc/fstab: > > /dev/sda /media/CCYU_TECH vfat pamconsole,noatime,async,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > /dev/sdb10 /media/usbdisk ext3 pamconsole,noatime,async,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > /dev/sdb12 /media/usbdisk1 ext3 pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > /dev/sdb13 /media/MacOSX hfsplus pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > > /dev/sda is a 64MB USB flash device > /dev/sdb is a 15GB hard disk drive in an USB enclosure, sdb10 being a quite > small partition. > So small partitions get explicitly mounted async, but isn't that the default, > anyway? > Oops, embarrassing, my bad. That should be 'sync' instead of 'async'. Will change that, maybe it can get into FC-3 otherwise it will have to be an update. David
