From: Raj <inguva@gmail.com>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Delay in unmounting a USB pen drive
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:20:41 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2fa632f04112401504a3f4956@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101288846.15596.5.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk>
> You can change this by using the "sync" option to mount which will cause
> data to be written synchronously and the umount will be instantaneous.
> Note that this will cause device write to be _much_ slower!
>
Tried 'mount -o sync /dev/sda /mnt' . After a 57MB file copy, i unmount. Still
it takes a lot of time.
> One thing is certain, do NOT unplug before the umount completes or you
> will corrupt your fs on the stick for sure.
I shall remember this !. Thx very much.
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raj
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-24 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-24 9:25 Delay in unmounting a USB pen drive Raj
2004-11-24 9:34 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-11-24 9:50 ` Raj [this message]
2004-11-24 9:38 ` Colin Leroy
2004-11-24 9:52 ` Raj
2004-11-24 10:06 ` Colin Leroy
2004-11-24 10:17 ` bert hubert
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