From: | "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
Date: | Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:05:44 +0200 |
yea, despite that it's not particularly nice to the operating system toPeople are used to pulling out flash storage (compact flash, memory sticksI wouldn't expect good things to happen detaching a drive without unmounting it first.
and the like) without the system going down. Especially if no changes have
been made to the filesystem.
Things like this need to be handled transparent and gracefully, not
panicing. (This has always been my one of biggest gripes about Unix.)
remove devices without telling so first, we have to face this situation.
I'd even prefer that non-flushed data will be kept (or transferred to a
userland tool), so that if you notice "uh, I didn't umount!" and insert
it back, the data can be flushed out...The problem with this is that USB device don't have UUIDs, unlike Firewire. So you can't reliable detect that it is the same device, it might be another USB stick of the same brand afterall.
cheers simon
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