The best way would be to indicate the status of the write operation with precision, with, for example, an icon indicating the status of the write buffer over the drive icon, so the user knows when it is safe (no pending writes) or not to remove the drive.
The system could then provide a removable buffer management policy, either by timeout, data size or both, to apply remaining write operations in one go according to this policy. Also, I believe most usb flash devices already employ wear-levelling or bad block management, so that wearing issues are mitigated, at least for the expectable life of the device, with a simple write buffer management like this. -- Removable media should be removable without extra commands https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/413194 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
