Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:47:18 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Jonas Nagel <fireball@zerouptime.ch> Cc: Ian Dowse <iedowse@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kern/72119: Detaching USB Memory Stick w/o umount causes zombie devfs node Message-ID: <42420E16.5040108@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20050323234032.AB8C.FIREBALL@zerouptime.ch> References: <200503230254.j2N2sMcD038315@freefall.freebsd.org> <20050323234032.AB8C.FIREBALL@zerouptime.ch>
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Jonas Nagel wrote: >I don't understand how this is supposed to be a duplicate. The issue >might be similar but in my case, the OS does NOT crash. > >My issue lies within the devfs, where a zombie device node remains, >which has to be deleted and then recreated, while in the other case it's >a straight kernel panic. > >But you might have deeper insights into the issue within... > > I believe that the device node continues to exist until the dead mount is forcibly unmounted.. probably one for Poul-Henning (CC'd )
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