Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Safely removing writable local devices?

2006-07-07 Thread Jason Maas
Hi Jim, On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Jim McQuillan wrote: This is one of the coolest features of the local device support in LTSP-4.2. Once the local device has been idle for 2 seconds, it is internally un-mounted, so that there's no data lingering around in buffers, and the filesystem is sync'd

[Ltsp-discuss] Safely removing writable local devices?

2006-07-06 Thread Jason Maas
Hi all, I read through the LTSP v4.2 Local Device Support wiki page and I've also searched this mailing list and I can't seem to find any docs about best practices for removing writable local devices (floppy disks and USB mass storage devices). What should I tell the users I support about

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Safely removing writable local devices?

2006-07-06 Thread Jim McQuillan
Jason, This is one of the coolest features of the local device support in LTSP-4.2. Once the local device has been idle for 2 seconds, it is internally un-mounted, so that there's no data lingering around in buffers, and the filesystem is sync'd properly. Even though the device isn't mounted,