How to unmount devices? -> The decision

[Thom May]

* Martin Pitt (martin.pitt at canonical.com) wrote :
> Hi again!
> 
> Yesterday's stated discussion time is up. So far we have:
> 
> | 3. Just let the user rip out the device; hal will detect this and gvm can
> |    unmount it afterwards. Devices are mounted with 'sync' anyway, so this should
> |    not damage VFAT devices too badly.
> 
> I guess we have to reckon with this and need to limit the damage this
> can do. If gvm detects that a mounted device is removed, it should
> lazily unmount it. I will care for the pumount support for this (same
> option -l as unmount). Any volunteers for the gvm side?
> 
I'll take this one on.
-Thom