Em 16/06/2014 19:52, "Neil Bothwick" <n...@digimed.co.uk> escreveu: > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:58:07 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: > > > Regarding umounting, it umounts the drive after it is removed, which > > looks strange (to say the least) to me. > > Udev doesn't know you want to remove the drive until you've pulled it. > Apparently, a future release of systemd will be able to predict when you > want to remove the drive as it will control everything you do. >
:-) well, by 'unount' I mean getting rid of the mounted tree and mount point. > > Did I miss something? Or, in other words, is there a way of forcing > > operations on a usb flash media to always flush buffers and/or caches as > > fast as possible? > > Mount it with the sync option. On the other hand, this increases the > number of writes to the drive, quickly killing performance and slowly > killing the drive. > > Thanks for this, I will use it. This system is an embedded one, the usb stick is for eventual data base backups. I'll remember to do as few writes as possible to it. > -- > Neil Bothwick > > We all know what comes after 'X', said Tom, wisely. Thanks again, Francisco