Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32643
Affects: gnome-volume-manager (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
Description:
USB Removable disks are currently mounted asynchroniously, which can
lead to users removing the media under the false impression that their
data is safely written.
In GNOME, choosing the GUI "remove"/"unmount" option immediately causes
a visual cue that the device is no longer mounted (i.e. icon disappears
from Computer and Desktop). Users usually interpret this as it's safe to
remove the disk.
However, a sync is still running in the background, and this is visible
for drives with an access light (not all do!). Usually, this lasts for
about 10-15 seconds post unmount, but in worst-case scenarios it could
take a minute or more to sync everything. If a user removes the disk at
this stage, there will be data loss or even filesystem corruption.
KDE, on the other hand, shows an "Unmounting..." dialog that disappears
when the underlying umount command exits (after all the data is written
and the volume is actually unmounted).
So, GNOME needs to get a similar "Wait a second" dialog, or the underlying
media should be mounted sync by hal.
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