Re: Volume handling proposal

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 05:03:45PM -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> Higher quality and/or newer removable media devices *should* have the
> right kind of notification features.  Whether or not they are
> standardized, or supported by Linux/BSD/Solaris/whatever, is another
> question.  Even if we were to put a dependency on kernel support for
> this, there's still a quite likely possibility of older/crappy hardware
> being used.

Also note that some not-so-crappy hardware may be affected.  Like the USB
drives (like tha small keychain ones) or cameras or whatnot.  Anything
hot-unplugable actually.  If the user unplugs the drive from the socket,
it's again too late to flush buffers.

On the other hand if supermount is used, then to nautilus this looks really
like things that we can have sort of mounted all the time ...

George

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