Re: [Usability] tools on the desktop

[Jason Hoover <jasonhoover verizon net>]

> They have the same problem, you're supposed to unmount volumes the same
> way for the same reasons, to make sure everything is synced, to make
> sure no other programs try to write the disk (MS word auto-backup) and
> the like. It just so happens that no one likes un-mounting floppies so
> there's always been an exception there.

Oops, small self-correction here, I forgot, this is in the way FAT
works. FAT12/16/32 writes look like this:

1) Write data.
2) Update FAT table 1
3) Update FAT table 2

If you loose media during any stage, you'll end up with the following
respectively:

1) Garbage clusters.
2) A corrupt FAT1 table, but a clean FAT2 table and lost clusters.
3) A clean FAT1 table, which is correct, so you can update FAT2.

Of course, *nix can use near-any FS on removable media besides FAT,
which may not be so robust, which is why it's not so simple to just pull
out the drive, hence our situation.

-Jason