Re: Automounter in KDE

[Randy Kramer <rhkramer@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 11 August 2005 03:32 pm, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> No. If you successfully unmount a filesystem it implies that nobody else
> was using it at that time.
> If you remove a data medium without having its filesystem unmounted first
> can lead to application crashed or worse (data loss).
>
> A possible correct behaviour would be to send an unmount request to all
> process currently using the filesystem/medium in question on eject requests
> and remove it when it can be savely unmounted.

Thanks!  Not sure that's the perfect solution, but it sure sounds like a step 
in the right direction--thinking of a way to accomplish something rather than 
reasons to not accomplish something.  Also, in terms of numbers, I wonder how 
many Linux systems have a single (vs. multiple) real (i.e., human) users?  
Maybe we need a single user and a multiuser Linux (OS and kernel?)?

regards,
Randy Kramer