Re: 2.7 (future kernel) wish

[Joshua Schmidlkofer <kernel@pacrimopen.com>]

On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 15:57, David B. Stevens wrote:
> While I agree that the kernel should provide decent error handling and 
> reporting I still have to ask questions about what is reasonable.
> 
> What does that other OS do when you pull a USB stick out?  What do you 
> think the kernel should do?  Why don't the applications operating on the 
> data take better care of handling error conditions?
> 
> I don't have one here to try, but at some point the (ab)user needs to 
> take a bit of the heat for his or her action(s) or lack thereof.
> 
> After all you could just reach in your case and rip out the IDE or SCSI 
> cables.  Bet that leads to all kinds of stuff (tm).
> 
> Cheers,
>   Dave
> 
> 
> Helge Hafting wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:42:17PM +0100, Jos Hulzink wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>First of all... Compliments about 2.6.0. It is a superb kernel, with very few 
> >>serious bugs, and for me it runs stable like a rock from the very first 
> >>moment.
> >>
> >>As an end user, Linux doesn't give me a good feeling on one particular item 
> >>yet: Error handling. 
> >>
> >>What do I mean ? Well... for example: Pull out your USB stick with a mounted 
> >>fs on it. 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >You aren't supposed to do that.  If you want to pull devices like that,
> >with no warning, access them in other ways than mounting.  
> >mtools are nice when you don't want to mount/umount floppies - a
> >similiar approach should work for usb sticks too.
> >
> >
> >
> >Helge Hafting
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Sometimes Windows 2k or XP dump (BSOD), or maybe you just get an error. 

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