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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>,
	Maxim <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>,
	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	gregkh@suse.de,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	USB development list <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: USB: on suspend to ram/disk all usb devices are replugged
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:49:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <461117E4.3060504@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070401175020.GE11146@elf.ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek wrote:
> ..
> Problem is that suspending _with_ removable mass storage devices
> attached just will not work. User will unplug them, then complain
> about corruption. Advanced user will unplug them, work with them
> somewhere else, replug them, then loose filesystem.
> 
> Feel free to send patch to teach filesystems to handle this.

People have already fixed this:  sync() before suspend,
and use a journalling filesystem.  Problem solved.

And when the rootfs is on an external drive, this is the *only* option.

So let's make it work (again, like it used to work!).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-02 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-27 16:24 USB: on suspend to ram/disk all usb devices are replugged Maxim Levitsky
2007-03-27 17:15 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-27 17:54   ` Maxim
2007-03-27 18:05   ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-03-27 23:29     ` Maxim
2007-04-01 15:29       ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-01 17:42         ` David Zeuthen
2007-04-01 17:50           ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-01 18:01             ` David Zeuthen
2007-04-01 18:29               ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-01 18:26             ` Alan Stern
2007-04-01 18:34               ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-01 20:53                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-02  2:54                   ` Alan Stern
2007-04-02 20:37                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-02 18:38               ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-04-02 19:36                 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-06 22:23                   ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-02 14:49             ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-04-02 18:28               ` Pavel Machek
2007-03-29 13:19 ` Mark Lord
2007-03-29 15:56   ` Alan Stern
2007-03-29 16:03     ` Mark Lord

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