Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > On 22 Jan 2003 20:40:48 +1100, Andrew Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Jan 22 20:32:55 senator kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data > > integrity not assured > > That's fairly normal. I've seen the same message on my zip drive, and > USB floppy and memorystick drives. Haven't lost any data since the > middle of the 2.3 kernel series, though. Of course, quite a few builds > flat-out failed to work, but that's different. :-)
I was curious about this a while ago and checked out the source. Turns out that it's just a standard message that appears whenever a new usb-storage device is added. It doesnt depend on any flags or the like. Basically it means "this is a removable device, I cant guarantee your data because there's nothing to stop you from disconnecting it before the VFS write cache is flushed". Sync and unmount properly and your data will be as ok as bugs will allow. -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
