On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Solving this problem for desktop users is harder; probably the best > > thing you can do is to throw up "shame" dialog box telling them that > > they did Something Wrong, and while they may have gotten lucky this > > time, that next time they should close all programs using the USB > > storage device, and then right-click on the mounted disk icon and > > select "eject". That's what Windows does, and IIRC, what Mac OS X > > does; there really isn't much else that can be done. > > Can we do something about atime on removable media? It is > non-intuitive to most users that sticking a drive in and copying a > couple files off from it is going to cause writes to the device. A > normal user would think that this is read-only access and it is ok to > yank the drive. I've burnt myself several times from this. > > Another thing that gets normal users is yanking out a drive that was > definitely idle and then not having the icon for the drive disappear > on the desktop. > > Maybe change distro mount defaults for removable media to noatime? And > add an event when the drive is yanked with no pending writes to tell > the desktop the drive is gone? > > Of course yanking with writes pending should generate a big error box. > Can it ask the user to reinsert the drive and pick up where it left > off? > Might be a little too late and the files are already missing.. > > -- > Jon Smirl > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
