[CentOS] Write to USB pendrives horribly slow

Tue Jan 10 16:57:14 UTC 2012
John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>

From: wwp <subscript at free.fr>

> I wonder if some mount options aren't wrong with USB pendrives, see:
>   /dev/sdd1 on /media/monolith type vfat 
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)
> my suspicion is about the flush option, which I find atypical here.

I guess it is to be safe in case users remove their usb keys without 
unmounting first...

JD