#2413 BLOC Untriag: User should not know about "unmounting"

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#2413: User should not know about "unmounting"
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  Reporter:  Zack              |       Owner:  tomeu    
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  blocker           |   Milestone:  Untriaged
 Component:  journal-activity  |     Version:           
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:           
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Changes (by tomeu):

 * cc: Eben (added)

Comment:

 I tried to discuss this issue here:
 http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-June/005585.html

 I would like for somebody nearer to the kernel say if using sync for
 removable devices is safe and won't have negative consequences in big
 capacity devices, etc.

 Please note also that the mount man page says that the sync option is only
 for ext2(3)fs and ufs, I expect to find a majority of sticks with a FAT
 fs.

 As the datastore service will be the only process to write to those
 devices, perhaps it could ask the OS to sync the buffers for that device
 after every write?

 Regarding how to avoid having half written content (sync doesn't solve
 this issue), I think we can implement Ivan's proposal after trial2.

 Eben, have you already thought about the user experience part of it? Can
 we avoid the unmount option somehow?

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