Please test AutoUnmountNotifications implementation

[Sam Morris]

On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:54:22 +0100, Vassilis Pandis wrote:
> I have submitted a spec abount mounting removable devices 'sync'. 

You say that Windows users will not notice a reduction in speed. This is
not true. Windows flushes write operations to the disk when a file is
closed, thus one gets the performance benefit from the disk being cached
without having to worry about uncommitted data hanging around when the
disk is removed.

WRT the comments about 'sync' not working on Linux's VFAT filesystem: it
used to do nothing, then it was fixed; then users started complaining
about the new kernel's crap performance. I seem to remember that as a
result a new option was implemented (flush?) which made the kernel act
like Windows does, above... maybe this would be suitable (if it indeed
exists and I'm not just mis-remembering).

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