fat32 invisible files

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:38:14PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   But, but, but... according to "man mount"...
> 
>   -o     Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a  comma  sepa-
>          rated  string of options.  Some of these options are only useful
>          when they appear in the /etc/fstab file.  The following  options
>          apply  to  any  file system that is being mounted (but not every
>          file system actually honors them - e.g., the sync  option  today
>          has effect only for ext2, ext3 and ufs):

The man page is out of date.  sync has effect on vfat as well, and that
is unfortunate for those with usb flash drives since the sync option
will seriously hurt the life time of those drives.  sync makes the
access much slower when writing and is very bad for flash media.  Not
bad for magnetic disks just slow.

Len Sorensen
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