On Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 06 Feb 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Why do you think remounting filesystems is necessary? Are you getting > > problems with some particular filesystem? > > No. But anything in a removable device neets to be either remounted > read-only or unmounted if that is at all possible, because the user could > unplug it. It is of course, sync'd anyway, so if the remount/umount fails, > no corruption should happen... but the fs will be dirty, etc. > > It can get very ugly when you factor in docks and removable bays. It's not > just USB/firewire mass-storage devices and memory cards. And there is the > patological cases where the user suspends with the device in one port, and > resumes with the device in another port. > > I feel userspace *can* do all that needs to be done, but we are (currently) > very bad at it.
Agreed, but still I think that we should try to solve these problems in user space and only _after_ it turns out to be impossible or too hard to do we can start to implement such things on the kernel side. Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
