Re: graceful handling of removing a plugable storage device that is being written to

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Sonntag, 11. September 2011 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 18:53, Martin Steigerwald <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > Frankly, I never tried this on AmigaOS. I know that AmigaOS expects
> > the exact same floppy disk to be inserted again. Only the same name
> > isnÂt enough. But I have no idea, what AmigaOS would have done, when
> > I inserted
> 
> Are you sure the volume name wasn't enough?
> For most things, it relied on the volume name, that's how you could map
> floppy names to hard drive directories using assigns.

Yes, I am pretty sure I tried that back then. Difficult to repeat at the 
moment, since I think at least the high density disk drive in my A4000 is 
toast since quite a while.

Anyway, if Linux implements something like that it should not only depend 
on a volume name ;).

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