From: | James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> | ||
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To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Stability of /sys api | ||
Date: | Mon, 14 May 2012 22:10:06 | ||
Message-Id: | m3vcjyju2h.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org | ||
In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Stability of /sys api by Walter Dnes |
1 | >> My USB drive reports 0. |
2 | |
3 | WD> You're right. Same for me. Thanks for pointing it out. |
4 | |
5 | The removable flag specifies whether the drive has removable media; |
6 | before flash drives only things like floppy, optical, zip, etc drives |
7 | had removable==1. It also would be accurate for flash card readers. |
8 | If thumb drives specify it, then they lie. |
9 | |
10 | The flag is read from the drive's metadata. |
11 | |
12 | -JimC |
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14 | James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 |