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    Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> said:

    [...]

    > That is becoming less true. The kernel has support for USB, firewire and
    > PCMCIA . Even so pulling the medium, or even device, isn't much
    > different from a headcrash on a harddisk. The filesystem can no longer be
    > accessed. I happen to think the kernel should survive a device's death
    > unless it holds /.

    The kernel holds up fine. It's just the data (filesystem) on the medium
    that gets thrashed...
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    Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
    Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616


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