Autoflush USB thumb drive after copy

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:00:11PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> I think you might get close to the behaviour that you want by arranging for 
> the filesystem to be mounted synchronously (sync option), dirsync might also 
> be needed, dunno.

Which causes severe excesive wear on the flash memory.  And kills
performance.  Very very bad idea, that earlier versions of some
distributions did.

> Keep in mind that even Windows forces you to "safely remove" hardware such as 
> this - though it may commit it's writes more quickly than Linux.

Certainly the only way to know for sure the write is done.

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