Re: Reattach/redetect allways connected umass device - is it possible ?

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.current,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In message <[email protected]>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:

>Then we'd have to poll every second in a sane way to accomplish that.
>And finding the sane way that doesn't interfere with other bus usage
>may be tricky.
>
>Unless we're going to give events to the actual user (meaning userland
>entities that inform the user in a friendly way), I'd maintain that
>there's no difference between knowing that the media is ejected
>immediately, and the time of next use.  The user experience will be
>the same either way.

The filesystems could get an upcall now when the disk disappears,
but I have not had time to try to implement this sensibly in any
filesystems yet.

>In the short run, however, adding a few checks to critical parts of
>the path, like daopen, would make the user experience much better.

Absolutely, I just get uncomfortable when I see too much "...we can
get away with...", I want us to stay the UNIX that solves problems
the right way.

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