On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Hannah Schroeter wrote:
Hi!
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:04:01PM +0100, David Vasek wrote:
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Perhaps. In case of firewire it depends on proper design of a connected
device too, but I meant stability of your machine/OS. A device connected
over firewire can do anything it wants with your machine, even crash it
unintentionally if there is a bug in the device (quite likely).
Disconnecting (or accidentally having disconnected) an USB
harddisk/stick without unmounting it isn't exactly fun either.
At least last time I "tried" it.
Well, I thought that ddb> because of suddenly unplugged USB device or
because of its timeout is due to my dated OpenBSD installation.
Anyway, I would never trade this risk for possible silent memory
corruption because of firewire.
Regards,
David
