From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264959AbTL1DJf (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:09:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264963AbTL1DJf (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:09:35 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-14-236-254.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.14.236.254]:46007 "EHLO office.labsysgrp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264959AbTL1DJe (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:09:34 -0500 Message-ID: <3FEE4929.4000500@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:08:25 -0700 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Organization: Back to Basics Network Management User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Crilly CC: Joshua Schmidlkofer , "David B. Stevens" , Helge Hafting , Jos Hulzink , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.7 (future kernel) wish 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> In-Reply-To: <3FEE47F5.6090406@why.dont.jablowme.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jim Crilly wrote: > 'safely' removed. I also believe Windows mounts any removable device > synchronously so that if you do pull it out prematurely the damage done > is limited. 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.