Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:53:25 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: amdmi3@amdmi3.ru Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_bio.c vfs_mount.c Message-ID: <20071229.065325.1716883756.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20071229130639.GA82286@hades.panopticon> References: <200712271638.lBRGcTu9071266@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071229130639.GA82286@hades.panopticon>
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Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> writes:
: * Warner Losh (imp@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
:
: > A partial solution to some of the 'pull the umass device with a
: > mounted FS' problems. These are more along the lines of 'avoiding an
: > avoidable panic' than a complete solution to removable devices. We
: > now close the barn door after the horse has gotten lose and has been
: > hit by a truck, as it were. The barn no longer catches fire in this
: > case, but the horse is still dead :-).
: Cool, but won't that affect hard drives too? I mean when my hdd drive
: goes offline, what I want is panic, to prevent possible [more] data
: loss. If this commit affects anything besides removeable devices, my
: opinion is this behavior should be reconsidered, or at least made
: tunable. Or am I missing something?
You don't want a panic like this...
Warner
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