Comment 5 for bug 105563

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Christian Schlauer (cs-usenet) wrote :

I can confirm Ian Jackson's bug and his comment (comment #1 above). As I understand it, the problem is in the kernel. I found this:

,----[ <http://lwn.net/Articles/241465/> ]
| The highly experimental "USB persist" feature attempts to maintain
| the state of USB devices when they lose power. The driving
| motivation between this patch is to be able to suspend a system
| containing filesystems on USB storage and still have those
| filesystems mounted and working at resume time.
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So this will be ("highly experimental") in kernel 2.6.23.