Removable storage devices and sync

["Nils O. Selåsdal"]

Nils O. Selåsdal wrote:
> Nils Philippsen wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 11:30 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> I noticed that external storage deviced that are automagically added to
>>> /etc/fstab by hal do not get the sync flag anymore (at least I think 
>>> they
>>> used to get it). Is this intentional?
>>>
>>> I know that sync does not solve all problems with suddenly disappearing
>>> devices, but it sure helps :)
>>
>>
>>
>> IIRC it depends on the size of the storage, i.e. if it is below a
>> certain size it won't get moutned sync because then it's probably some
>> kind of a flash device which can only be written a certain number of
>> times. In that case, sync is a bad idea because it will wear your device
>> much faster.
> 
> What about noatime for such devices ? Shouldn't that help the wear of such
> devices ? Especially since many flash devices have FAT fileystems on 
> them,and
> atime seems to be mapped to the other time fields on fat.
Pretty much ignore this if I'm not mistaken.
FC3 seems to add noatime, FC2 does not.