Re: Flames over -- Re: Which is simpler?

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Feb 13 2006 - 17:24:48 EST


Hi,

On Monday 13 February 2006 22:24, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Phillip Susi wrote:
}-- snip --{
> You are complaining because you don't like the way USB was designed.
> That's fine, but it leaves you advocating a non-standardized position.
>
> Can you suggest a _reliable_ way to tell if the USB device present at a
> port after resuming is the same device as was there before suspending?

It seems to follow from your discussion that if I have a mounted filesystem
on a USB device and I suspend to disk, I can lose data unless the filesystem
has been mounted with "sync".

If this is the case, there should be a big fat warning in the swsusp
documentation, but there's nothing like that in there (at lease I can't find
it easily).

[If this is not the case, I've missed something and sorry for the noise.]

Greetings,
Rafael
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