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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [KDE Usability] Users cannot find where to "safely remove" USB
From:       yahoo-pier_andreit <pier_andreit () yahoo ! it>
Date:       2010-04-11 13:17:56
Message-ID: 4BC1CC04.3050502 () yahoo ! it
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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.
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