USB Flash Memory suggestions

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Some do proper wear leveling so that updating the file allocation map of
> the filesystem doesn't destroy the flash, while others do not.  I have
> seen reports of people having a 1G usb key destroyed writing one 700M
> file to it because FC turns on sync by default on removeable media, and
> updating the FAT entries once per 4k cluster written was just to much
> for the flash to handle.
> 
> So make sure you do NOT use sync with flash media (it makes it slow and
> may destroy the cheaper designs too quickly).  If possible make sure it
> does wear leveling in the hardware to make your flash last much longer.

I've noticed that SuSE 9.3 mounts my pen drive with sync on.  Is there
any way to change this?  There's no entry for it in fstab.
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