On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, tike64 wrote: > I can't understand what is going on with yahoo. My reply seemed perfectly > normal before sending. Hopefully this comes through a little prettier ...
Sorry, yes, this is much better. > Yes the risk losing data is obvious but leaking system resources is > simply wrong. In real life in 24/7 system it is bound to happen that > the user detaches the stick at wrong moment. Data loss can be fixed > by asking the user to put the stick back. But if the system resources > are leaking it means eventually a need for rebooting and that is > wrong. My ubuntu desktop system doesn't have this problem and that > tells me that the problem is introduced by the older kernel version, > ARM environment or the buildroot generated user space. Ubuntu's desktop environment probably includes a program (like hal or autofs) that watches for device removals and automatically unmounts the filesystem for you. The behavior you see is not affected by any changes in the kernel, not since the days of Linux 2.4. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
