On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 17:20 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > 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. > Because 'sync' kills performance which is noticeable on USB harddisks and not on USB sticks (flash memory is slow). In the future we will do this using a combination of a) per device hal device information files; and b) preferences coming from the logged in users settings. Right now, looking at the size is the best heuristic we got, sorry. David
