> 'sync' has some strong downsides though: various operations become > painfully slow (this depends a lot on the hardware and its age, and > the history of previous writes, etc.), write operations block read > operations, and the total number of writes may be increased, leading > to more wear&tear on the hardware. The udev rule only applies to USB Storage devices, and I think the total number of writes increasing only happens if the data to be written is changed constantly (e.g. writes that overlap on same region/block of a device) Most USB Storage devices are used for storing simple, consecutive streams of data, such as Music, Pictures and other simple files and are not usually modified much, thus, I think enabling sync makes sense in this regard. In my opinion, the benefits of mounting USB Storage devices with sync outweigh the detriments. Writes blocking reads is concerning. > We approach this problem from a different angle: the user is supposed > to sync the filesystem before removing. Graphical environments have > an "eject" button, and for non-graphical environments, the user > just needs to do a sync manually. I am aware of that, but it leads to a poor user experience, being notified that a copying operation has been completed, while in reality, it has not. > The same is true for "normal" writes to a harddrive. Operations are > generally async, and the user needs to do a shutdown, during which > we sync and unmount filesystems. If you "yank" the cord, this may (*) > result in lost data and file system inconsistency. My proposal was exclusively for USB Storage devices, not internal ones, as I can understand the benefits of async outweighing the detriments in the case of internal/network etc storage devices. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
