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SubjectRe: Of removable devices
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Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> said:

[...]

> That is becoming less true. The kernel has support for USB, firewire and
> PCMCIA . Even so pulling the medium, or even device, isn't much
> different from a headcrash on a harddisk. The filesystem can no longer be
> accessed. I happen to think the kernel should survive a device's death
> unless it holds /.

The kernel holds up fine. It's just the data (filesystem) on the medium
that gets thrashed...
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