Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1 | Date | Sun, 16 Jan 2000 19:06:15 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> In fact, for floppies we could probably just get rid of the disk change > detection, and nobody would ever even notice. Not that I'm advocating
They would
> this: I think detecting disk changes is a good thing anyway, I'm just > saying that if I had done this originally, I wouldn't ever have bothered.
You'd have been caught by changing disk during a writeback not failing all the further writebacks with an error. The buffer flushing only saves you from read detect failures. A media change detect on a mistimed disk change when writing is a life saver
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