Comment 4 for bug 1871869

Many Thanks for your assistance.

Best Regards

John

On 4/9/20 12:33 PM, sudodus wrote:
> Your observation is correct and I have seen it too. RAM is bigger and
> processes are buffering in RAM more aggressively in recent computers
> with recent versions of linux operating systems. Be aware that also
> Windows uses this feature and for that reason you must 'remove the USB
> drive safely' or your data on it might get corrupted also in Windows.
>
> For this reason I check flushing the buffers in the new tool to create
> USB boot drives, mkusb-plug. If you install mkusb-plug, it will bring
> the shellscript watch-flush, that you can use as a stand-alone program,
> or use it via the zenity GUI as I use it in mkusb-plug.
>
> It would certainly be possible to do something similar also in Files
> alias nautilus.
>
> There are pros and cons to let nautilus wait while the buffers are
> flushed when writing to removable drives, but I agree with your point:
>
> Newbies might be tricked into yanking a USB pendrive before the buffers
> are flushed. Also more experienced users might forget about
> unmounting/ejecting. So if nautilus (or maybe a dedicated system
> service) will show on the desktop that there are still buffered data
> (alias 'dirty' data) waiting to be written to a removable drive, many
> users will avoid problems with corrupted files and file systems.
>