To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: mpm@selenic.com, colin@colino.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] let fat handle MS_SYNCHRONOUS flag
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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:26:26 +0900
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> wrote:
>>
>> AFAIK, EXT2 doesn't update all metadata synchronously in sync-mode.
>
> It does.

Umm... I was thinking that ext2 is using the delayed-write if it can
keep the consistency of metadata on-disk.

> I'm actually surprised to discover that [v]fat doesn't support `-o sync'. 
> It's probably a quite practical way of handling these various hotpluggable
> gadgets and would be a popular addition.

OK. If peoples really want this, I don't have objections.  I'll check
the patch.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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