From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264964AbTL1DNT (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:13:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264966AbTL1DNS (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:13:18 -0500 Received: from imf21aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.69]:55804 "EHLO imf21aec.mail.bellsouth.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264964AbTL1DNQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:13:16 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.7 (future kernel) wish From: Rob Love To: "Kevin P. Fleming" Cc: Jim Crilly , Joshua Schmidlkofer , "David B. Stevens" , Helge Hafting , Jos Hulzink , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3FEE4929.4000500@backtobasicsmgmt.com> References: <200312232342.17532.josh@stack.nl> <20031226233855.GA476@hh.idb.hist.no> <3FECCAF9.7070209@maine.rr.com> <1072507896.27022.226.camel@menion.home> <3FEE47F5.6090406@why.dont.jablowme.net> <3FEE4929.4000500@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1072581195.4042.13.camel@fur> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-8) Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:13:15 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 22:08, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Nope, when I put stuff onto a CF card via CF-to-USB adapter Windows > still buffers writes to the media while the user interface goes on about > its business. The only media that I've ever seen Windows use > synchronously is old-style floppy disks. Yah, it really would not be smart to do all I/O synchronously. It might be a neat idea to do the buffer writeback much sooner, but that would require per-device writeback settings, which is ugh. Rob Love