Thoughts about libhal-storage

[David Zeuthen]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 18:24 +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> > The way UNIX-like stuff works, and Linux in particular, works you always
> > need to unmount your media before unplugging something :-). Some people
> 
> Yeah, hopefully that limitation will get rid of soon (one can always
> hope ;))
> 

That would be nice, yeah.

> > say you can get around to whether something is mounted sync but this is
> > not enought really, sorry.
> 
> But I think Jerome means some dialog in the notification area / panel
> bragging about how one has to click it before removing the media (eeew)
> 
> And the answer to his question is probably,
> Imagine a usb cd writer: It is hotpluggable and the media is removable.
> Imagine a ide cd writer: It is not hotpluggable but the media is
> removable. [well, officially its not hotpluggable *grins*]
> Imagine a hard disk: It is not hotpluggable and the media is not
> removable.
> Imagine a usb stick: It is hotpluggable but the media is not removable.
> Imagine a card reader: It is hotpluggable and the media is removable.
>
> Hope I got that right :)
> 

Looks like it, might want to add

Imagine a usb hard disk: It is hotpluggable and the media is not
removable.

Cheers,
David


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