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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>,
	gregkh@suse.de, Andrew Morton <akpm@linuxfoundation.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc6: CONFIG_USB_PERSIST forced on
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:26:12 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806071525030.3473@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080607195221.GB11109@ucw.cz>



On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Well, not-usb-persists means we force-unplug disks during suspend,
> after syncing them. Not _too_ bad.
> 
> If you unplug disk while hibernated, modify it, and plug it back,
> youget _silent_ filesystem corruption. I call that bad.

.. and if the USB layer unplugs them unconditionally while the filesystem 
is mounted, you _unconditionally_ get a system that doesn't work.

I call that worse.

Much worse.

			Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-07 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-06  9:25 2.6.25-rc6: CONFIG_USB_PERSIST forced on Pavel Machek
2008-06-06 14:39 ` Alan Stern
2008-06-07 19:52   ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-07 22:26     ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-06-09  8:00       ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-09 15:03         ` Alan Stern
2008-06-09 15:12           ` Oliver Neukum
2008-06-09 15:44             ` Alan Stern
2008-06-09 19:50               ` Greg KH
2008-06-09 20:59                 ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-09 21:39                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-09 21:52                     ` Oliver Neukum
2008-06-09 21:56                     ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-09 22:19                       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-10  8:55                       ` Oliver Neukum
2008-06-10 14:59                         ` Alan Stern
2008-06-10 15:50                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-10 16:36                           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-10 18:59                             ` [PATCH] USB: don't use reset-resume if drivers don't support it Alan Stern
2008-06-10 19:10                               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-10 21:30                               ` Greg KH
2008-06-10 21:42                               ` patch usb-don-t-use-reset-resume-if-drivers-don-t-support-it.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree gregkh
2008-06-09 19:56               ` 2.6.25-rc6: CONFIG_USB_PERSIST forced on Oliver Neukum
2008-06-09 15:35         ` Linus Torvalds

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