linux-kernel - Re: Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March 23rd, 2008

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Message-Id: <200805261909.59032.oliver@neukum.org>
Date:	Mon, 26 May 2008 19:09:57 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March 23rd, 2008

Am Montag 26 Mai 2008 19:01:48 schrieb Theodore Tso:
> If the USB stack folks would like to work on how to recognize that
> it's the same USB stick that had been previously pulled, so that it
> gets the same block device, and we can decide for how long we should
> keep dirty buffers around associated with a pulled USB stick, we can
> certainly have that conversation.  :-)

Even if we could tell whether the device has remained the same, how
would we know the medium wasn't exchanged?

	Regards
		Oliver

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