>> Tell me, in detail, how such a system would work behind the scenes. If
>> you are detailed enough, someone will code it.
>>
>
> Users can pull out USB drives at will. If there was no writing process
> currently taking place, nothing happens – the device is safely
> removed. Many people do that anyway because they are either annoyed
> about the work to »safely remove« a drive or they simply do not know
> there is an option for that.
>

So far, this sounds like you recommend a "sync" after every read /
write command from / to the drive. This is the easy part.


> Only if there is some kind of problem, the user gets notified to
> reinsert the stick and the system is able to continue from that point
> on. Download managers can handle that, why not operating systems?
>

How would that work? Store the file in /tmp until it is successfully
written? Give details.

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