From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 04:23:36 +0000 Subject: Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev Message-Id: List-Id: References: <200401012333.04930.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20040107205237.GB16832@suse.de> <200401072316.18169.gene.heskett@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <200401072316.18169.gene.heskett@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Gene Heskett Cc: Olaf Hering , Greg KH , Andrey Borzenkov , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I do too, except the card is still in my camera when I do it. My camera just does USB-1, and with a gigabyte card that's just too painful. Besides, I don't want to eat camera batteries. So I just pop it over in something that is ten times faster. > But, I do have to ask, why the ro? I don't trust camera firmware to do a full VFAT implementation, so out of principle I only let the camera write to it normally. That way I don't need to worry about the limited braincapacity of my poor camera. > Apparently fat thinks an empty sector is the end of the directory. So > one must delete on LIFO basis. Sounds like your camera gets easily confused too. Me, I just transfer the whole thing, and then I let the camera do a "format". I've seen cameras that have serious problems with old filesystems - when they get fragmented enough, the camera says that there is 50% free space, but can't actually write a single picture any more. Deleting pictures to make space only helps a bit, then it's "full" again. Which is why I just delete everything by letting the camera do the formatting. Some day cameras will run Linux too, and I'll trust them. In the meantime I just don't expect them to do that well. Linus ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel