Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users

["Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <200412311322.14359.gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gene Heskett  <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Let me toss this out for discussion.
>
>There are some times when the usual 5 second flush schedule should be 
>tossed out the window, and the data written immediately.  A quickly 
>unpluggable usb memory dongle is a prime candidate to bite the user 
>precisely where it hurts.  Floppies also fit this same scenario, I 
>don't know at the times I've written an image with dd, got up out of 
>my chair and went to the machine and slapped the eject button to 
>discover to my horror, that when my hand came away from the button 
>with disk in hand, the frigging access led was now on that wasn't 
>when I tapped the button.

Google for "supermount".

Mike.

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