-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:49:43AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
[...] > In 3 years of use, I've experienced no problems. Why does no one > believe me? I *do* believe what you state above. I just *strongly* recommend against the practice you propose. Anyone is, of course, free to use my recommendations the way (s)he sees fit. It's as simple as that: pulling out a still mounted medium is risky, as the OS makes no guarantees about the state of the cache. To be really effective, your udev rules would need the ability to peek into the future, to unmount the USB stick a tad before you're going to pull it out. You can, of course, reduce the risk by waiting for the system to be long enough in a "quiescent" state, by reducing the complexity of the whole (Rube Goldbergian desktop systems have lots of moving parts doing lots of things which tend to make system behaviour less predictable), but your risk won't disappear. If you want to get rid of this risk, unmount before pulling. I think we've stated our opinions clearly enough. I bow out. regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAla9kuQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZIMACbBv8FkaNk8wbSHZp0d+hyFvZs yCgAn0YdKOCMFAHcfi6LPfY5St78yyF8 =UdK/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
