Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 May 2008 11:39:13 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March 23rd, 2008 |
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* Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 03:30:20PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > Ted looked at these during the LF summit, and his conclusion was > > that they're all media errors (eg USB unplug) that ext3 then did not > > handle well at all. Maybe Ted has an update on this? > > Not really. It's on my todo list but fixing a bug caused by users > doing something stupid (pulling a mounted USB stick) has been lower > than a number of other fires burning on my plate. I'll try to get to > it but a lot of other things I need to worry about have deadlines > associated with them....
Exactly why is pulling an USB stick considered "stupid"? Last i checked there was no physical lock preventing users from doing that.
Sure, pulling a mounted USB stick is inconvenient ... for _us_ kernel developers. But the user really doesnt care and shouldnt care.
Ingo
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