Re: Of removable devices

From: Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 14:19:47 EST


In <14517.7506.620172.285340@dukat.scot.redhat.com> Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com) wrote:
> Hi,

> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:28:42 -0500, "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH"
> <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net> said:

>> IIRC there's a nonzero chance that the media will be corrupted unrecoverably
>> as it is removed.

> Indeed. It seems crazy to include handling of removal of active media
> as a supported feature.

Media can be non-active while filesystem on said media will be active
(mmap'ed file between update calls).

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