104297 – hal-0.4.7-r2 and sync mount option

Bug 104297 - hal-0.4.7-r2 and sync mount option

Summary: hal-0.4.7-r2 and sync mount option

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Project Gentopia

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Reported:	2005-08-30 13:16 UTC by Michal Kurgan (RETIRED)
Modified:	2005-10-16 19:04 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Michal Kurgan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-30 13:16:40 UTC

Hal-0.4.7-r2 by default uses sync option to mount hotplugable or removable  
devices under 2GB. Recent change in 2.6.12 add "support" for sync option with  
fat filesystem. This filesystem is quite popular on various memory sticks.  
With this mount option usage is almost impossible, with transfer about 5kB,  
also fat filetable is overwritten many, many times so it may even destroy such  
a memory stick with this constant overwrite... 
I think sth should be done with this situation.  
  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge hal 
2.use memory stick 
3. 
 
Actual Results:  
mount with sync option 

Expected Results:  
exclude option from hal configuration file, or issue some warning about this 
situation.

Comment 1 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-31 15:40:43 UTC

AFAIK, this is fixed for 0.5.x but I'll verify.

Comment 2 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-03 19:01:14 UTC

@Cardoe: any update?

Comment 3 Steev Klimaszewski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-16 19:04:41 UTC

This is fixed in latest hal.  From the ChangeLog

 * fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-storage-policy.fdi: Never ever use
   sync as it reduces performance and makes people believe that
   it wears out their drives