Re: [SLUG] Hotplug and cached Disk writes

[Steve Downing <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I didn't even think about modutils, thanks Peter!  You'd just have 
to make sure hotplug was rmmod'ing the unused modules properly. And 
mtools sounds even better if it bypasses all the kernel stuff.
Time to look into customising 'mc' so it has copy and mcopy, or look 
deeper into 'sync' as suggested by gus.

>*snip*
>hotplug doesn't really have a pre- or post- removal mechanism, but 
modutils
>does.  Stick something like
>pre-remove usb-storage umount -f /path/to/mountpoint
>in your /etc/modutils.conf to make sure the filesystem gets unmounted.
>It'll leave your system without any stale mounts, but there's a 
very good
>chance you'll lose data.

*snip*
>Because Linux is funky, and there is always a way.
My thoughts exactly!!  It's finding the light that shows you they 
way thats not always easy.

thanks all

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