Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> Just think about a program that checks a file that is on a removable media.
> 
> This media is mounted via a vold service and someone removes the USB cable
> and reinserts it a second later. The filesystem on the device will be mounted
> on the same mount point but the device ID inside the system did change.
> 
> As a result, the file unique identification st_ino/st_dev is not retained 
> and the program is confused.

And it would be equally confused if I inserted a different media instead.

Relying on stability of anything across mounts/umounts does not make any
sense.

				Have a nice fortnight
-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@xxxxxx>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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