Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Of removable devices | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:39:09 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> No, this is unacceptable. If a user removes a media in the process of > writing, then it's his fault, and his program should get thrashed to > give him a lesson.
Perhaps you would like to explain that to your grandmother. The Mac folks figured this out, the PC guys never got it.
> 2. (apart from floppies) you *can* send a command to drives so that > they allow ejection when the uesr "presses the button", but you must > ensure that all writes are finished. This cannot be done in user > space. I already had the case where I allowed the medium to eject, > then wrote a file on the medium, then pressed the eject button: the > allow_eject command popped up in the middle of a write --> fs thrashed
The 2.2 supermount stuff while buggy actually has the infrastructure in place to do lock when writes are pending, unlock when finished.
Alan
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