On субота 22 грудень 2007, Mike Tancsa wrote:
= Perhaps its the one card reader you are using is particularly
= problematic ? I have been using the multi-type cheapo reader below
= for some time
Perhaps. But /nothing/ excuses devfs hanging for 25 minutes. Nothing. It
should be more resilient to such problems. It should be possible to interrupt
a hung operation too.
= We go through the following steps when using it. We always plug the
= reader in without a card. Then we put the card in and do a
= cat /dev/null > /dev/da1
= ... or whatever the device is. Its been quite reliable this way for us.
= The other caveat is never to pull the card or reader when its mounted.
Yes, I go through these steps too and am also aware of the caveat(s). And it
sucks (see Subject), that one has to keep all of this in mind in order to
perform a trivial operation: transfer a few pictures from a media card to
their home directory.
If we want people to give FreeBSD a try in good faith, it is both profoundly
stupid and dishonest on our part to claim, we have a working USB-system... It
does not matter, how great our buffer-sharing VM is, if a home user can't
process their photos with a FreeBSD-powered computer.
-mi
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