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 The man page is out of date.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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