22 Aug
2016
22 Aug
'16
5:39 a.m.
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:51:05 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
"Lennart argued it will greatly improve the handling of removable media like USB sticks."
-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/16/08/21/2259219
The point being, as I understand it, is to ensure that writes to the volume are flushed from the cache within 1 second. Given people’s propensity to pull out such sticks without doing a clean-dismount, this should reduce the frequency of corruption and data loss.