Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:12:30 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: col-pepper@piments.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: o_sync in vfat driver
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col-pepper@piments.com wrote:
>
> That would not seem to be the case at least on MS systems. I had a freind  
>  do some timings copying a large group of files to a 128M usb flash device.
>  There was an arbitary mix of files including many small files and some  
>  larger files, one in excess of 50MB.
> 
>  suse10 default 4m10
>  win2k 2m30
>  suse w/o sync 30s
> 
>  The suse test was drag and drop in konqueror , the other dnd in windows  
>  explorer.

We don't know that the same number of same-sized write()s were happening in
each case.

There's been some talk about implementing fsync()-on-file-close for this
problem, and some protopatches.  But nothing final yet.

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