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Subject: Re: 2.7 (future kernel) wish
From: Rob Love <rml@ximian.com>
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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