Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261525AbUKWU3f (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:29:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261490AbUKWU1q (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:27:46 -0500 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:33039 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261471AbUKWUY5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:24:57 -0500 To: Colin Leroy Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] let fat handle MS_SYNCHRONOUS flag References: <20041118194959.3f1a3c8e.colin@colino.net> From: OGAWA Hirofumi Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 05:24:36 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20041118194959.3f1a3c8e.colin@colino.net> (Colin Leroy's message of "Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:49:59 +0100") Message-ID: <87653wxqij.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 20 Colin Leroy writes: > It adds MS_SYNCHRONOUS support to FAT filesystem, so that less > filesystem breakage happen when disconnecting an USB key, for > example. I'd like to have comments about it, because as it > seems to work fine here, I'm not used to fs drivers and could > have made mistakes. What cases should these patches guarantee that users can unplug the USB key? And can we guarantee the same cases by improving autofs or the similar stuff? I'm not sure sync-mode is proper for it... -- OGAWA Hirofumi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/