Re: Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March 23rd, 2008

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Mon May 26 2008 - 13:10:13 EST


Am Montag 26 Mai 2008 19:01:48 schrieb Theodore Tso:
> If the USB stack folks would like to work on how to recognize that
> it's the same USB stick that had been previously pulled, so that it
> gets the same block device, and we can decide for how long we should
> keep dirty buffers around associated with a pulled USB stick, we can
> certainly have that conversation.  :-)

Even if we could tell whether the device has remained the same, how
would we know the medium wasn't exchanged?

Regards
Oliver

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