Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> 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. > Oh I don't know, but as Jan-cristoph say download manager do it safely, why cannot operating system do it? but about /tmp I think not, may be not enough space in the hd where /tmp lies, another problem is that could appear slower copy files in/from USB removable compared to other OS's which uses safely remove. _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability