When you write a file, it's not actually written but you then have to "sync" in a terminal. So for example with a USB stick, you drag a file into it inside a GUI, it shows it to be there, but really it isn't.

This will not only not get rid of Windows in any way, it'll make people snap Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallmans head in two.

(Windows btw has write-caching which you can turn off *only for a USB stick* - I fail to see how this is inferior in any way. In Linux of course you cant even TELL one drive from another).

So - somone please do something about it.

Your someone..

Or, you could just put a script on your desktop, that syncs and unmounts the drive for you..

would be real simple as well.

Make it executable:

Then, just put it on your desktop, double-click to eject.. like, I might add, you have to do in Windows.. whenever you want to remove a removable drive, you have to select the "Safely Remove Hardware" program from your system-tray, and then select the device.

I'm sure you could add to the script, or someone could show you a better way of mounting it with the GUID so it is always called the same thing..

[QUOTE=grizly;3167860]Your someone..

Or, you could just



I DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING. When the icon shows it's there I want to be able to pull out my drive. You DON'T have to click "Safely Remove Hardware", I've been doing it for years on doze without anything (*once* I think it effed up).

But besides all that - I want write caching *enabled or disabled on a *per drive basis**. That is the main point of this post. Once again, someone, please look into it, otherwise we're all dead.

Yes, it will require some absolute fundamental rewiring of Linux, it will.....

Never heard of sync option? See man mount and man fstab.

Speak for yourself.

If you don't want to do anything, and it's not a problem for anyone else, why should WE do it FOR YOU? And this isn't a "linux problem", this is a file-system issue, which can vary. Is your USB stick NTFS? VFAT? EXT2/3? Reiser? ZFS?

Journaled file systems are much more robust than what Windows uses, which is why you can "just pull it out" on Windows...with the exception of it "effing up once". And since Windows can't do it 100% of the time reliably, why do you expect the (lots) of Linux supported file systems to?

If you don't want to contribute anything, fine...but don't complain about what others do.