Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:33:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crashing after umounting unavailable filesystems Message-ID: <20051113153258.R7337@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.63.0511101644570.15466@as2.dm.egate.net> References: <43726E40.3090701@iaces.com> <200511100943.30024.ringworm01@gmail.com> <4373A05F.3000104@iaces.com> <200511101140.01009.ringworm01@gmail.com> <Pine.BSF.4.63.0511101644570.15466@as2.dm.egate.net>
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, William Denton wrote: > On 10 November 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > >> Opps, I crashed the machine. When I moved it, I unplugged the > >> USB DVD-RW and I had mounted one of the dist discs on there. > >> When I did a umount it paniced. My bad. > > That happened to me the other day too. I'd mounted a USB flash drive, > unplugged the USB hub, replugged it, remounted the drive, and then of > course I couldn't umount the first mount. I did a umount -f and the > machine crashed instantly. > > Is this the sort of thing that's really hard to handle, or might it be > safer one day? I don't know how serious it is to do bad things to mounted > file systems, but I'm curious. Its Hard To Handle. :-) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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