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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 03:30:20PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > Ted looked at these during the LF summit, and his conclusion was 
> > that they're all media errors (eg USB unplug) that ext3 then did not 
> > handle well at all. Maybe Ted has an update on this?
> 
> Not really.  It's on my todo list but fixing a bug caused by users 
> doing something stupid (pulling a mounted USB stick) has been lower 
> than a number of other fires burning on my plate.  I'll try to get to 
> it but a lot of other things I need to worry about have deadlines 
> associated with them....

Exactly why is pulling an USB stick considered "stupid"? Last i checked 
there was no physical lock preventing users from doing that.

Sure, pulling a mounted USB stick is inconvenient ... for _us_ kernel 
developers. But the user really doesnt care and shouldnt care.

	Ingo