From: Martin Steigerwald Subject: Re: graceful handling of removing a plugable storage device that is being written to Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:06:17 +0200 Message-ID: <201109112106.17705.Martin@lichtvoll.de> References: <1315751507.52552.YahooMailClassic@web29517.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <201109111853.20530.Martin@lichtvoll.de> (sfid-20110911_210415_171129_50324A7B) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: "Hin-Tak Leung" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Geert Uytterhoeven Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: Am Sonntag, 11. September 2011 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 18:53, Martin Steigerwald =20 wrote: > > Frankly, I never tried this on AmigaOS. I know that AmigaOS expects > > the exact same floppy disk to be inserted again. Only the same name > > isn=C2=B4t enough. But I have no idea, what AmigaOS would have done= , when > > I inserted >=20 > Are you sure the volume name wasn't enough? > For most things, it relied on the volume name, that's how you could m= ap > floppy names to hard drive directories using assigns. Yes, I am pretty sure I tried that back then. Difficult to repeat at th= e=20 moment, since I think at least the high density disk drive in my A4000 = is=20 toast since quite a while. Anyway, if Linux implements something like that it should not only depe= nd=20 on a volume name ;). --=20 Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7