On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:41 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > [BTW, I wonder if it's USB-only, or some other subsystems behave > in a similar way, like ieee1394 or external SATA. And how about > NFS/CIFS/whatever network filesystems mounted on the suspending box?] > NFS is stateless, it does not care about stuff like this. There's no concept of an open file. write() does not return until the data is committed to stable storage. Lee