Re: 2.7 (future kernel) wish

[Pat Erley]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:19:53 -0500
Jim Crilly <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>I also believe Windows mounts any removable device 
> >>synchronously so that if you do pull it out prematurely the damage done 
> >>is limited.
> > 
> > 
> > Eww, I hope not, that would be excruciatingly slow.  It might adjust the
> > buffer writeback to be really short (even nearly immediate) but
> > synchronous I/O is a different story, and much slower.
> > 
> > 	Rob Love
> > 
> > 
> 
> Perhaps synchronous was the wrong term =) But it does atleast seem to do 
> less buffering for removable devices or I could just be fooled by 
> something else slowing it down.

check under device manager and notice that there is an option checked on USB media disks that says "SYNC"?  I'm pretty sure that's pretty much synchronous transfers I assume.

Pat Erley

(Just delt with a neuros vs mvp3 chipset problem and noticed it)
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