Re: usb flash drive removal (Re: Desktop NetBSD needs your help)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:59:30PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> >You cannot ensure that the device is the same state than previously.
> 
> True. But unless you have outstanding writes this is harmless, just
> drop cached data. For writes you could track state changes with
> a serial number.

Even Microsoft is telling Windows users to not just unplug a USB stick
you are currently writing to. As long as you write data back to
removable media soon enough (e.g. sync mounts with low flush timeout for
data), it is good enough. Users are normally pretty good to understand
that the above is a bad idea.

Joerg