Does anyone know how to unmount the drives safely? Tried to Google but this stuff is so new I couldn't find much. Thanks!
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iPad Safely remove media / unmount ext drives?
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It seems like this . . . behavior no longer applies. I’m not 100% sure why, but it could partly be that iOS/iPadOS does not use ram as a cache for external drives. Maybe it just writes through or flushes very quickly and frequently. This would drastically lower (potential) write performance but maybe that is the trade-off the have made.
For Apps that are writing to such, maybe they have to use an API (instead of typical OS block writes) to handle such disruption before a full write is completed. A journaled filesystem is clearly not a requirement.
Maybe they are just accepting less guaranties around such data. After all, these are not system executables or anything like that. I have seen no white paper on this (yet).
For Apps that are writing to such, maybe they have to use an API (instead of typical OS block writes) to handle such disruption before a full write is completed. A journaled filesystem is clearly not a requirement.
Maybe they are just accepting less guaranties around such data. After all, these are not system executables or anything like that. I have seen no white paper on this (yet).
My drive was constantly spinning and the read indicator was flashing. I tried to close the app and wait for 30 minutes but it still went on. So it must've been doing something... I just decided to pull it out for now, but I don't think it's a good idea though.
