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

[Olivier Galibert]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:01:02AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Actually, if you really want to do this, it would probably make sense
> to do at blockdevice level -- with device mapper magic or something.
> 
> That way you could prompt user "return that flash driver, I still want
> to write to it" after surprise unplug, etc. And suspend is special
> case of surprise unplug, then replug.

I'm not sure.  Suspend is not a surprise, so you can do things so that
you don't lose anything (what I described is pretty much unmounting
while keeping file references).  Surprise unplug, there is no way you
can make the filesystem clean if it wasn't already.

I also think that USB flash and this kind of things should go back to
clean state as soon as possible even whe mountd, but that's a
different issue.

  OG.

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