“Someone had decided that having the SD card on the side, hot-swappable, was a good idea. If you try to pull a hard drive in and out of a Linux system, you’re gonna have a bad time. This was the worst: device ripped out with almost no warning. You could be writing to the disk. Maybe you took a picture thirty seconds ago, so those buffers were still in the OS page cache, and they’re not gonna get written out for another thirty seconds.”
