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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

I'm very confused by this thread.

Progress bars are handled by the applications themselves, whether flushing happens or not;

immediate flushing does not increase storage lifespan, in fact letting the OS decide when to do it may allow wear-leveling to work better.

(Though, IMO immediate flushing should be the default for removable media on user-friendly distributions, like swap partitions are)

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago

    Progress bars are handled by the applications themselves

    Yes, but OS must tell the application how much of the operation is done

    immediate flushing does not increase storage lifespan

    I was trying to say the opposite. Caching/buffering is what longers the lifespan and can speed system up

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