From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756103AbYAATcV (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2008 14:32:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754677AbYAATcM (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2008 14:32:12 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:36642 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754276AbYAATcM (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2008 14:32:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 20:29:45 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Raymano Garibaldi Cc: Alan Stern , Andrew Morton , Denys Vlasenko , Kernel development list , USB development list Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [FEATURE REQUEST] Transparent hot plugging of root file system on portable storage devices. Message-ID: <20080101202945.GA14190@ucw.cz> References: <1618816c0711261104m3177a2bas24446035557f9593@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1618816c0711261104m3177a2bas24446035557f9593@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi1 > I would like to request a feature in the Linux kernel that would allow > a user to unplug a live read-only root file system which exists on a > detachable storage device such as a USB key drive. The desired > behavior is that once the same device is reattached to the computer > the user can continue work transparently without having to reboot. > > Having such a feature is becoming more important with advances in > detachable solid state drive technology. Yep, that would be nice.... In fact, patch would be very welcome :-). -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html