Autoflush USB thumb drive after copy

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Feb 1 16:23:16 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:14:53PM -0500, Jing Su wrote:
> For performance Linux does not immediately commit writes.  It is
> recommended to umount, or else call sync several times to ensure full
> flush.

I would say umount is not recomended, it is mandetory.

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