[ILUG] USB mass storage woes

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Colm Buckley (colm at tuatha.org):

> Under Linux, I almost always mount removeable storage with the "sync" 
> option, as it makes the likelihood of accidental data loss considerably 
> less.  It also makes writes slower.  You pays your money...

"-o dirsync" might also be worthwhile, though mount doesn't support it
for some filesystems.  Haven't tried it; prefer to live dangerously and 
beat myself severely if I forget to umount media.  ;->

Manpage says:

  dirsync
    All directory updates within the file system should be done
  synchronously. This affects the following system calls: creat, link,
  unlink, symlink, mkdir, rmdir, mknod and rename.