Re: 2.6.25-rc6: CONFIG_USB_PERSIST forced on

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Well, not-usb-persists means we force-unplug disks during suspend,
> after syncing them. Not _too_ bad.
> 
> If you unplug disk while hibernated, modify it, and plug it back,
> youget _silent_ filesystem corruption. I call that bad.

.. and if the USB layer unplugs them unconditionally while the filesystem 
is mounted, you _unconditionally_ get a system that doesn't work.

I call that worse.

Much worse.

			Linus
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