On Saturday 29 July 2006 11:11, n0dalus wrote: > On 7/29/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Selecting 'Safely Remove' starts lots of flickering on the pen-drive and > > the laptop, but the icon remains, no mount or umount appears on the > > right-click menu, and the drive can be opened in konqueror from the > > right-click menu - obviously not umounted. > > Sounds like a feature to me. Flash devices are mounted 'async' by > default, so data written to them gets stored in the kernel for a short > amount of time before 'syncing' and writing to the device; this way > series of changes can be combined into single writes, saving the > finite write cycles on the device. The 'Safely Remove' option probably > pushes any remaining changes out of the kernel onto the device, and > once there is no write activity remaining it is quite safe to remove > the device even though it's still mounted. > I'm not happy with that idea. IAUI, 'Safely Remove' should flush the cache (I presume that's the activity seen) and then umount it. It certainly does on my FC4 boxes. I do not like the idea of wrenching a mounted device, and the only other alternative is to wait until the laptop is shutdown. Anne
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