saveitall | SaveItAll speeds up flash drive installations

saveitall is a Shell library. saveitall has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

saveItAll works by disabling the automatic save mechanism provided by the kernel, and replaces it with a tool and background process to manually save data when you are not using your PC. When the kernel does a save, the computer tends to stop responding, resulting in the well known slowness of using a USB flash drive or SD card for Linux. However, when the automatic save mechanism is disabled, the writes are buffered into memory, and only written out when a request to write data is made. This results in a much faster, responsive system. saveItAll makes those requests every so often, as well as offers a tool to make a request anytime, such as when an important document is saved. Note that when saveItAll performs a save, the system will still become unresponsive. Just wait and allow the save to occur, and saveItAll will notify you when the save is complete. Once the save is complete, the system will become responsive again. It is important to note that this tool, although with good intentions, can cause harm if not properly used. Since the changes to your disk are buffered into memory, loss of power or a hard system crash will cause the data to be lost, since they were never written to disk. Note that this applies for ALL data transfers involved, including transfers and I/O on your internal HDD. Finally, if you run certain programs, such as Firefox or LibreOffice, you may experience some performance problems. This is due to those programs running saves manually on their own accord. If you encounter problems, try disabling the auto-save functions or caching functions to speed things up.