Nils Philippsen wrote:
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 21:46 -0600, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Jan 7, 2008 4:28 PM, Douglas McClendon
<dmc.fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I had been happily just yanking usbsticks for a long time, though just
the other day I did manage to corrupt a vfat fs on one pretty badly.
But would you ever want to yank a terabyte sized usb "stick" like
Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo 1TB External Drive?
Absolutely, if I trusted that the kernel code was smart enough to never
result in a corrupted filesystem.
Hm. I had the impression that even Windows nowadays has icons to
"unmount" removable media (like USB sticks), possibly for a reason?
why I referenced win3.1
Anyway, you'd also have to trust that the hardware can cope with being
yanked, possibly in mid-operation.
Doesn't sound like an impossible engineering challenge to me. Also why
I referenced waiting 3X the time you know that the OS config would allow
writes to be in flight (or ye ol sync mount option).
Maybe it'll be a solved problem by 2030 or so...
-dmc
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