On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:29, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Can't usbd (or better yet, usbd.conf) be modified or changed in some way > to automatically handle the unmounting of any existing filesystems that > match the device which is mounted? > > Seems like we're eventually going to need this to make hot-swappable USB > devices more friendly. I understand why you must unmount a device > before SCSI CAM gets disconnected from it, but it just seems that this > should be a job for usbd. The problem is that once the device is removed it's too late :( One possibility would be to add a facility to mark all the data for a certain device to be non-critical so it will throw it away when it tries to flush it and fails instead of panicing. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:13 UTC