Alexandre Moreira wrote:
2007/2/1, Harold Aling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Dear list,
When I copy something to my USB flash disk, I now have to either type
'sync' in a terminal or right-click a removable device in Thunar and select
'eject'.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a system tray icon present if one or more
removable devices have been mounted that has these features:
- Either right or left click shows all mounted removable devices. Clicking
them syncs and unmounts that specific drive and gives visual feedback that
it's safe to remove the device.
- Produce an error popup (which disappears in X seconds) when a user does
not correctly unmount a removable device before removing it (which can lead
to data corruption...)
- Default action when clicking the systrayicon: 'sync all buffers to disk'
- ...
Trashbin or feature request in Bugzilla?
I don't own this kind of device (well, I do, but I hardly use it) but
someone told me some time ago that this kind of action was not needed
because of the write-through cache linux uses in this kind of device
IIRC, "linux" doesn't use write through cache, you can specify what
cache strategy you want to use on a per-device basis (udev/hal stuff)
-- you would only need it to stop blinking to take it off, and it
would be already synced.
I have one flashdisk without a LED and also one PC which only got USB
ports on the back... A lot of pc's are also hidden under desks...
After copying a large file (~520 MB) to my flashdisk, the disk stops
blinking ~10 secs after the copy. 'time sync' in a terminal makes the
stick blink again and gives as output: "real 1m28.523s", so we can
say the LED is a very bad indicator...
Is this correct ?
If so, I don't see much need for that.
see above...
If not I believe it would be nice to have that kind of option... but
it seems to be a separate application, doesn't it ?
IMHO this would be a part of Thunar (hence the thunar-dev list). Thunar
is already a daemon and handles removable devices: a perfect match!
Many users don't know that they must write these buffers to disk either
through neatly unmounting or the 'sync' command before unplugging the
device, so a visual warning would be appropriate if they don't...
-H-
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