From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 20:21:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A26516A4CF for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:21:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd5mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0147C43D7D for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:20:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com) Received: from pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.212]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HSJ00B18L77MD@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:16:19 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml1so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml1so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.145]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HSJ00L6PL76EK@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:16:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from francisco.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (h24-87-202-31.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.202.31]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HSJ0081DL76RN@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:16:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from hardesty.hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com ([192.168.23.1]) by francisco.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i144GWp3024345; Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:16:33 -0800 Received: from aardvark by hardesty.hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AoETD-0003kQ-00; Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:16:59 -0800 Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:16:58 -0800 From: Saint Aardvark the Carpeted In-reply-to: <20040203084956.O91207@irfcn.qzm.berz.irevb.arg> Sender: Debian User To: Fred Clift Message-id: <20040204041658.GF2197@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i References: <20040203084956.O91207@irfcn.qzm.berz.irevb.arg> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb umass flash drive mount/umount questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 04:21:05 -0000 Fred Clift disturbed my sleep to write: > So, are there other fstypes, or some kind of filesystem tuning or mount > flags I can use to say "always flush all writes synchronously" so that if > the device disappeared it would be consistent and have the right contents. Probably a dumb question, but wouldn't "-o sync" do this? -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth.