Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:38:48 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: Of removable devices |
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In <00021715371206.00332@chani> Oliver Neukum (Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) wrote: ON> Am Don, 17 Feb 2000 schrieben Sie: >> In <00021622461203.00298@chani> Oliver Neukum (Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) wrote: >> > Am Mit, 16 Feb 2000 schrieben Sie: >> >> To add my own $0.02 ... ON> <SNIP> >> >> This solution works pretty well. >> >> It is clean ( IMHO ). >> >> Doesn't require extra software. >> >> No danger of any corruptions. ( of kernel structures , like when the >> >> medium is >> >> ejected while still mounted ). >> >> > The kernel should be able to cope with a dead device, so pulling >> > the medium must be survivable. >> >> You should not be able to pull medium while it in use. This is true for >> CD-ROM, ZIP, MO and so on. This is not true only for "normal" floppies. >> Let them die.
ON> That is becoming less true. The kernel has support for USB, firewire and PCMCIA. ON> Even so pulling the medium, or even device, isn't much different from a ON> headcrash on a harddisk. The filesystem can no longer be accessed. ON> I happen to think the kernel should survive a device's death unless it holds /.
Kernel WILL survive. Just filesystem on said device/floppy willbe trashed if you'll not unmount it first. No problem to me: "you are asked for this"...
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