On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A patch to suppress the WARN information will be in 2.6.28 when the > user does something stupid (i.e., yank out a USB stick without > unmounting the filesystem first). This was done mainly to suppress > the "scary message" in dmesg, which on distributions that support > uploading such messages to http://www.kerneloops.org for analysis, was > cluttering the reports. I don't think removing these messages is a good idea. It's good even for non-developer users to have information about what is happening on their systems. At least to know that they (me in that case) did something stupid. > However, the patch does not make it any *safer* to uncerimoniously > yank out a USB stick without unmounting it first. This can still lead > to data loss, unless you're *sure* that no process is writing to the > stick and you issued the sync command, and you know enough time has > passed so all of the data has been written to the USB stick. Another reason to keep these messages. To hide information without provinding a solution (I can see none here, i´'s impossible to prevent anyone from doing stupid things) is not a good idea, sounds like the philosophy of other operating systems... > If you see "lost page write due to I/O error", then you will have lost > data due to premature removal of the USB stick, and fundamentally > *that* bug exists between the keyboard and the chair. ;-) > Regards, > > - Ted Sincerley, Alexandre -- =============================================================================== Alexandre Lymberopoulos - [EMAIL PROTECTED] =============================================================================== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
