fat32 invisible files

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:13:56AM +0200, Peter wrote:
> Just use -o noatime with flash disks and use sync without cutting the 
> life.

No sync actually seems to cause it to rewrite the FAT table every since
time a block is written to the filesystem.  noatime makes sense on
filesystems that have the concept of atime, which FAT does not.

Len Sorensen
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