'Safely Remove' doesn't umount

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 29 July 2006 11:11, n0dalus wrote:
> On 7/29/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > Selecting 'Safely Remove' starts lots of flickering on the pen-drive and
> > the laptop, but the icon remains, no mount or umount appears on the
> > right-click menu, and the drive can be opened in konqueror from the
> > right-click menu - obviously not umounted.
>
> Sounds like a feature to me. Flash devices are mounted 'async' by
> default, so data written to them gets stored in the kernel for a short
> amount of time before 'syncing' and writing to the device; this way
> series of changes can be combined into single writes, saving the
> finite write cycles on the device. The 'Safely Remove' option probably
> pushes any remaining changes out of the kernel onto the device, and
> once there is no write activity remaining it is quite safe to remove
> the device even though it's still mounted.
>
I'm not happy with that idea.  IAUI, 'Safely Remove' should flush the cache (I 
presume that's the activity seen) and then umount it.  It certainly does on 
my FC4 boxes.  I do not like the idea of wrenching a mounted device, and the 
only other alternative is to wait until the laptop is shutdown.

Anne
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