Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Well perhaps what windows does is write the hole file, then update the
> fat, then call sync immediately afterwards, or whenever a file is
> closed, it calls sync on that file's information.
Probably something like that.. Windows does default to disabling write
caching on removable drives, to prevent data loss if a device is removed
without being stopped first, but I think it's quite a bit less
aggressive about updating the FAT than the original poster's description
suggests Linux is doing with the sync option (i.e. only updating after
each user-level write call or something).
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