hmm, on Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 09:12:32PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty said that > I wonder if there's a buffering thing going on. Under both os's, what > happens if you time it from the start of dd to the time the light stops > flashing and you could remove the stick. Perhaps linux's dd is > returning while the data is still being written.
exactly. since i bought the asus eee i have been a linux user again, and none should envy me for that... i have a plethora of usb stuff with me, mp3 player, camera, external hdd, psp... and i have truly came to hate the linux buffer system. it is all nice and dandy that your copy operation whizzes past like a douglas adams deadline but when you issue the umount to take your gadget you wait sometimes more than a minute! what is the point of that i ask? i'll take a "normal" speed copy and an instant-ish umount any day. and the other day i shot myself in the foot with gkrellm because i have a button set up for umounting the gadgets, and that button just starts umount but it's a non blocking thing, it doesnt wait for umount to actually return... so i "umounted", removed the mp3 player and later that day i discovered partly overwritten files and whatnot. madness. so my 0.63 thai bahts (~ 2 cents) is a massive attack song title as well: be thankful for what you have got... i had my fair share of umass problems in the past, but i still think that the openbsd usb stack is very reliable, and a lot of hardware awfully misbehaves... [EMAIL PROTECTED]> uname -a Linux amaaq 2.6.21.4-eeepc #21 Sat Oct 13 12:14:03 EDT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux damn you atheros for your chipset, damn you! and damn asus to use it, damn you! otherwise an excellent little machine. almost there to wipe the linux from it. -f -- women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
