Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool

"anonymous reader: 'I'm surprised this hasn't surfaced on Slashdot already, but yesterday Phoronix reported that systemd will soon be handling file system mounts, along with all the other stuff that systemd has encompassed. The report generated the usual systemd arguments over on Reddit.com/r/linux with Lennart Poettering, systemd developer and architect, chiming in with a few clarifications.' Lennart argued it will greatly improve the handling of removable media like USB sticks." -- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/16/08/21/2259219 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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.
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