On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:19:38AM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > Nope, the point of mounting 'sync' is to ensure that all IO is done > synchronously to ensure that data is written to the disk in the event > that the user yanks out the device without properly unmounting it. Yes, I know that. But why the different handling for large and small devices? Should not all external devices be mounted sync? I can pull out an external hard disk just as easy as an USB stick.
