Hello!
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:46:09AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> USB by it's nature is something external to the system. Unplugging a USB
> cable with a mounted drive attached should (IMHO) get the same result as
> unplugging an Ethernet cable with an NFS mount in progress. This means
> processes go into D state if they have outstanding writes, and for reads they
> may go D state depending on mount options, and then you wait for the device
> to become available again.
How do you distinguish between SCSI & USB storage in Linux on fs level? ;)
> For a file system on USB ReiserFS would have to recheck the superblock (to
> make sure that it hasn't been mounted on another computer in the mean time)
> before allowing access again. Also there would have to be a recovery process
> for the situation when the USB device is gone for good.
Sound not very easy to do ;)
Bye,
Oleg
