Hi Dave and Ethan.
On 08/19/09 16:03, Ethan Quach wrote:
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> Dave Miner wrote:
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>>> The spec proposes an "unmount" button for unmounting selected
>>> removable media. This is useful if, say, a user has two drivers to
>>> add, each on its own USB stick. After the user finishes with the
>>> first USB stick, the "unmount" button is pushed to umount it, and
>>> the user can then insert the second USB stick to get the second driver.
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>>> Please feel free to ask specific questions.
>> This seems like a feature that could be deferred, perhaps
>> indefinitely. It's relatively unlikely that multiple drivers actually
>> need to be handled here, and even so, the average driver is far
>> smaller than any commonly available medium these days, so telling
>> users to put multiple drivers on one device doesn't seem
>> unreasonable. Is there some case I'm missing here?
I had actually prepared a response to your email, Dave, but then Ethan
piped up...
> Further more, if we're talking physically removing and
> inserting USB sticks or whatever media, doesn't hal just
> handle this automatically?
Gee whiz... learn something new every day...
I have been manually unmounting my USB sticks for years and thought it
still had to be done.
Somewhere along the way things changed. It appears that when I now
unplug a USB stick, that the system cleans up after it. (At least df
doesn't show it anymore. Maybe hal does a umount -f ?) There is no
more warning message to plug it back in, like there used to be.
So, this being the case, I'll take the umount button out of the spec.
Thanks,
Jack
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> -ethan
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