From: Rob Love <rml@ximian.com>
To: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
Cc: Jim Crilly <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net>,
Joshua Schmidlkofer <kernel@pacrimopen.com>,
"David B. Stevens" <dsteven3@maine.rr.com>,
Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>,
Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.7 (future kernel) wish
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:13:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072581195.4042.13.camel@fur> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FEE4929.4000500@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-28 3:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-23 22:42 2.7 (future kernel) wish Jos Hulzink
2003-12-26 23:38 ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-26 23:57 ` David B. Stevens
2003-12-27 6:51 ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
2003-12-28 3:03 ` Jim Crilly
2003-12-28 3:08 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-12-28 3:13 ` Rob Love [this message]
2003-12-28 11:17 ` Kevin Krieser
2003-12-28 11:23 ` Gaël Le Mignot
2003-12-28 3:11 ` Rob Love
2003-12-28 3:19 ` Jim Crilly
2004-01-04 21:05 ` Pat Erley
2003-12-28 3:57 ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
2003-12-28 4:33 ` Elladan
2003-12-30 14:20 ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-31 0:18 ` Jim Crilly
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-30 15:41 Pacheco Jason NPRI
2003-12-30 16:18 ` mjt
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