Making Fat Sd Cards More Robust

[Drake01]

the only way is to properly unmount your partition, and adding an extra sleep in the eject script so it actually waits an additional second or two for the filesystem to sync up completely if it is a larger SD card.
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On a similar topic, what if you never remove your SD card and don't really need to umount it?  Mine (ext2 formatted) only gets removed on rare occasions.  I'm still concerned about the possibility of Something Bad happening, so I don't want a bunch of unwritten cache sitting there in memory.

Instead of actually ejecting / unmounting the card, wouldn't syncing the card offer a similar level of protection?

[speculatrix]

On a similar topic, what if you never remove your SD card and don't really need to umount it?  Mine (ext2 formatted) only gets removed on rare occasions.  I'm still concerned about the possibility of Something Bad happening, so I don't want a bunch of unwritten cache sitting there in memory.

Instead of actually ejecting / unmounting the card, wouldn't syncing the card offer a similar level of protection?
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if you almost never take your sd card out, then probably the only risks are a kernel crash or lockup, or sudden power failure so it can't shutdown without warning - the latter is more likely. Even if the Z seems totally locked, there's a good chance the kernel itself is still ok.