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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Raymano Garibaldi <raymano@faunos.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	USB development list <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [FEATURE REQUEST] Transparent hot plugging of root file system on portable storage devices.
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:19:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801021119.22104.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080101202945.GA14190@ucw.cz>

Am Dienstag 01 Januar 2008 schrieb Pavel Machek:
> 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 :-).

Use the USB persist feature and hibernate. It should work. If you modify
the fs in any way, you'll crash and burn. Unmounting / is harder which you
need if you want to do this safely.

	Regards
		Oliver


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-02 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-26 19:04 [linux-usb-devel] [FEATURE REQUEST] Transparent hot plugging of root file system on portable storage devices Raymano Garibaldi
2008-01-01 20:29 ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-02 10:19   ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2008-01-02 20:23     ` Alan Stern
2008-01-05 21:52       ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-06 17:18         ` Alan Stern
2008-01-06 20:59           ` Oliver Neukum
2008-01-06 22:26             ` Alan Stern
2008-01-06 22:44               ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-07 15:39                 ` Alan Stern

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