-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Dear Debian Users,
I was contemplating today the fact that I know several people who have scrambled various removable disks and thumb drives by failing to "unmount" or "eject" before removing them. Mostly this has happened in Windows, not because there isn't an "eject" feature, but through ignorance or accident. This happens, I am told, because of unwritten buffers which are emptied only when the device is unmounted or ejected. Why? Removable media are already a class unto themselves, so why aren't they marked something like "sync immediately"? It's not like a USB drive is being used as multiple fast file accesses, benefiting from buffering in RAM. These are repositories, places where whole files are written or read and then the media removed. It seems logical to me that there would be a way to say "sync immediately" or "do not buffer", so that when the drive was inactive it could be yanked without danger of corruption. Any suggestions? Curt- - -- The Magistrate, enrobed in taxes, condemns the thief in stolen rags. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iFcDBQFRjbEltk9X6NaR4akRCPTtAQCxZtevVNERTGWxSnThiZyUwDYyI3pVniiA tzmnWu3LNQD9F+6uyO8szP3eFiUqTpQMTbaeWJhwsHM+fZyqLHwfaRc= =YiRT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201305102247.06301.howl...@priss.com
