From: Rob Love <rml@ximian.com>
To: Jim Crilly <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net>
Cc: Joshua Schmidlkofer <kernel@pacrimopen.com>,
"David B. Stevens" <dsteven3@maine.rr.com>,
Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>,
Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.7 (future kernel) wish
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:11:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072581073.4042.10.camel@fur> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FEE47F5.6090406@why.dont.jablowme.net>
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 22:03, Jim Crilly wrote:
> Generally it just complains that you pulled out the device prematurely,
> I've never seen one give a STOP error from that but I guess a bad driver
> or USB controller could cause anything.
It would be pretty easy to screw things up if you pull out a device in
the middle of use.
> When you insert a device like a USB stick Windows puts a little icon
> next to the clock in the system tray that you're supposed to use to stop
> the device before pulling it, effectively it unmounts and stops (or
> atleast releases the device from) the driver so the device can be
> 'safely' removed.
This is useful, and something I think we need on the Linux desktop (stay
tuned).
> I also believe Windows mounts any removable device
> synchronously so that if you do pull it out prematurely the damage done
> is limited.
Eww, I hope not, that would be excruciatingly slow. It might adjust the
buffer writeback to be really short (even nearly immediate) but
synchronous I/O is a different story, and much slower.
Rob Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-28 3:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-23 22:42 2.7 (future kernel) wish Jos Hulzink
2003-12-26 23:38 ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-26 23:57 ` David B. Stevens
2003-12-27 6:51 ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
2003-12-28 3:03 ` Jim Crilly
2003-12-28 3:08 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-12-28 3:13 ` Rob Love
2003-12-28 11:17 ` Kevin Krieser
2003-12-28 11:23 ` Gaël Le Mignot
2003-12-28 3:11 ` Rob Love [this message]
2003-12-28 3:19 ` Jim Crilly
2004-01-04 21:05 ` Pat Erley
2003-12-28 3:57 ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
2003-12-28 4:33 ` Elladan
2003-12-30 14:20 ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-31 0:18 ` Jim Crilly
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-30 15:41 Pacheco Jason NPRI
2003-12-30 16:18 ` mjt
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