Re: USB: on suspend to ram/disk all usb devices are replugged

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >Problem is that suspending _with_ removable mass 
> >storage devices
> >attached just will not work. User will unplug them, 
> >then complain
> >about corruption. Advanced user will unplug them, work 
> >with them
> >somewhere else, replug them, then loose filesystem.
> >
> >Feel free to send patch to teach filesystems to handle 
> >this.
> 
> People have already fixed this:  sync() before suspend,
> and use a journalling filesystem.  Problem solved.

Does not solve the 'user removed it and mounted it somewhere else in
the meantime' problem.

Alan proposed one possible solution....
							Pavel
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