Re: Of removable devices

From: Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@tanstaafl.de)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 12:33:39 EST

khim@sch57.msk.ru (Khimenko Victor) writes:

[...]
> can cook up something (it was even done). It'll work sometimes. But
> it'll ruin floppies from time to time. MS DOS doing it, Windows
> doing it (there are no easy way to check if filesystem is clean and
> you can eject floppy safely -- I've ruined my floppies pretty often
> on old days when I've used them) but WHY THE HELL Linux should do
> this is well ?
[...]

Users lived with this on the Amiga, Users lived with this on
Windows. Just add a notification callback which is called when the
kernel wants to sync the floppy, let your desktop add a handler which
pops a requester "Please insert floppy "foobla" (as far as I know,
there is a unique identifier for both ext2 and DOS) in Drive
"/dev/fd0".

Worked on the Amiga for me. Why not also on Linux? If there is no
hander installed: Bad luck for the user. You asked for it.
 
        Regards
                Henning 

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