RE: usb umass flash drive mount/umount questions

2004-02-04 Thread Brian Black
Fred, have u tried to give the sync option when mounting. Tho i have not used usb.conf to auto mount(which is cool), my /etc/fstab line reads /dev/da0s1 /mnt/thumb ufs2 rw,noauto,sync 0 0 IMO, even if u use the sync option u are not guaranteed to have all the data written out to

usb umass flash drive mount/umount questions

2004-02-03 Thread Fred Clift
Ok - I've got a lexar 64Mb flash drive - aka 'thumb' drive. I've modified my usbd.conf to automatically mount the device on insertion. I have a single slice and a single FreeBSD partition with a ufs filesystem on it. I am wondering if there is any way I can have the device unmounted

Re: usb umass flash drive mount/umount questions

2004-02-03 Thread Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
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