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    SubjectRe: Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March 23rd, 2008
    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
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