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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	504391@bugs.debian.org,
	Wouter van Heyst <larstiq@larstiq.dyndns.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: add module parameter to set whether cards are assumed removable
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:51:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091130135119.4bacade7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259587966.13049.6.camel@maxim-laptop>

> Before we do suspend, pick few random sectors from the media, run that
> through some hash function, thus creating some sort of watermark.

Statistically speaking the chances are you'll catch zero sectors and
lose. You'll also not detect the suspend, move to other box, use, put
back error. That is one users make and we need to be at least vaguely
robust against.

Hence you need the fs checking here.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-30 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-11  4:44 Ben Hutchings
2009-11-16 20:23 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-16 22:31   ` Ben Hutchings
2009-11-17  7:53     ` Stefan Richter
2009-11-30 12:39       ` Pierre Ossman
2009-11-30 12:54         ` Alan Cox
2009-11-30 13:09           ` Pierre Ossman
2009-11-30 13:32         ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-11-30 13:51           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-11-30 15:27             ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-11-22 11:42     ` Wouter van Heyst
2009-11-22 12:32       ` Ben Hutchings
2009-12-01 19:57         ` Wouter van Heyst
2009-11-30 12:38 ` Adrian Hunter
2009-11-30 12:48   ` Alan Cox

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