Hi,
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:34:43 -0000, "Towers, Tim (London)"
<ttowers@MLE.CO.UK> said:
> However, to protect users who have a removable media removed whilst
> writes are occurring - Is there a way of remembering unwritten data
> and requeueing it if a semi-written media is placed back in.
Not really --- there is no reliable way to determine that it is the same
disk which has been replaced, and queuing things to the wrong disk would
be fatal. You're also risking serious virtual memory deadlock problems
if you "pin" that dirty data without hope of writeback for an extended
period of time, although that effect could be limited with work.
--Stephen
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