fat32 invisible files

Peter plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Fri Dec 23 07:13:56 UTC 2005



On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> 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 The man page is out of date.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.

Just use -o noatime with flash disks and use sync without cutting the 
life.

Peter
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