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? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B "Go not unto the Usenet for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (and quite a few things that just have nothing at all to do with the question)." Unknown
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