Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 May 2008 13:41:46 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March 23rd, 2008 |
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On Mon 2008-05-26 19:09:57, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Montag 26 Mai 2008 19:01:48 schrieb Theodore Tso: > > If the USB stack folks would like to work on how to recognize that > > it's the same USB stick that had been previously pulled, so that it > > gets the same block device, and we can decide for how long we should > > keep dirty buffers around associated with a pulled USB stick, we can > > certainly have that conversation. :-) > > Even if we could tell whether the device has remained the same, how > would we know the medium wasn't exchanged?
We need filesystem support for that, but I guess we should just bite the bullet and do it for the most common filesystems... it is very useful for suspend/resume, too and I have heared about (misdesigned) machines where it will be basically mandatory... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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