Re: THE LINUX REMOVABLE DEVICE PETITION

[Olaf Frączyk <olaf cbk poznan pl>]

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 13:38, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 00:48, nf wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have created a website to point out the main issues with removable
> > devices and unmounting - a place to collect information and to discuss
> > possible solutions.
> > 
> > http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/petition/
> > 
> > Please help me improving it, add comments and links, discuss it...
> > 
> > Work in progress...
> 
> While I agree with yor view that we should have a notification system
> that doesn't block unmounts I'd like to point that we *do* try to fix
> this issue in nautilus. Whenever something is unmounted using nautilus
> (or any app using gnome-vfs to unmount) the pre_unmount signal is sent
> to all apps using GnomeVFSVolumeMonitor. When nautilus gets this signal,
> it immediately unmonitors any mounts on that device.
> 
Hi,
But it is hiding an existing problem. What we really need is the
notification system that doesn't block umounts, what you have written at
the beginning.
BTW., what is wrong with umounting a filesystem that has open file
descriptors? If any program is writing/reading files and filesystem is
umounted, it should get an error, and if it is fatal for it, then it
should display some message and quit.

Regards,

Olaf