From: ccsccs7 (ccsccs7_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 20:07:33 PDT
I was just thinking about that. Just for speculation's sake, I'm
thinking about how things were handled under the classic Mac OS. If you
took out a disk while it was being used, you'd be asked to reinsert it.
Now, if you were actually writing data to a disk, and such a thing
happened, what kind of safeguards would need to be in place to prevent
data corruption? Can you pick up where you left off? Can you just
re-enact the last transaction (if it's been cached locally)? How do hard
drives react when they are suddenly disconnected from their host?
Cedric
Jim Witte wrote:
>>I am surprised that Apple has not yet made the iPod into a automatic
>>portable Home directory container...
>>
…
> My feeling is there were still some technical glitches in it (you
>DON'T want to do think unless it's absolutely bulletproof) The
>addition of journaling to HFS+ might have something to do with this -
>what to do if someone accidentally unplugs their iPod while doing
>something important.
>
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