Mike McCarty wrote:
Mike Wright wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
[that he was clueless about what the LED was]
Hi Mike,
I've an Emprex and its led comes on when it is inserted. It flashes
off and on when writing. There doesn't appear to be any indication of
when it is OK to remove it so I always do a sync sync before pulling
it out.
Well, I always umount before removing any such device, which should
flush all dirty buffers. But simply flashing when the device is being
written does not sound adequate for any system which does disc write
caching with write-back policy rather than write-through, and I know
for a fact that MS Windows after 3.x do that. So I wonder just what
use the LED is unless the software which mounts it has some control
over it. True, withdrawing it during a write almost surely will corrupt
it. But so can withdrawing it while there are dirty cache buffers.
Mike
This was the point of my bug report.
I had written to a drive that I couldn't see the LED on. When the icon
disappeared from the desktop, I thought the drive was safe to remove.
Guess what, it wasn't. Ouch corrupted drive. Repeated many times.
The proposed changes will be more in line with Windows that you will get
a pop-up saying that it is safe to remove the drive.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199128
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Robin Laing
