On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 03:23 -0400, William Ballard wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:45:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > ReiserFS expected it to be there, can't find it, and pukes. A bit
> > (no, a lot) ungraceful, but totally understandable. After all,
> > some process might be trying to write to the device...
>
> I kuh-now, I kuh-now. But that's what the SYNC option is before.
> If I yank it within say 20 seconds of having used it, that's on me.
>
> Windows actually deals with this better than it used to. Windows
> used to have serious problems if you lost a HD casually, but I can
> just yank it now with no ill effects ("if I haven't used it in,
> "a while"). Just flush a little more aggressively, that's all.
"sync, rw".
Did you lose any data when whined about being inappropriately
yanked.
> Some people used autofs, it seems.
There is that.
> Anything promising using the PCI hotplug facility?
Just out of curiosity, but why should *PCI* hotplug have anything
to do with USB?
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