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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [KDE Usability] Users cannot find where to "safely remove" USB
From:       Dotan Cohen <dotancohen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-04-11 12:38:31
Message-ID: p2m880dece01004110538l2e00b72cr49926cd5d6f086b7 () mail ! gmail ! com
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>> 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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Dotan Cohen

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