Re: 2.7 (future kernel) wish

[Rob Love]

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


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