Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:37:46 +0200 From: Nikos Ntarmos <ntarmos@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stale mount on disconnected device: how to delete it? Message-ID: <20071219093746.GA25058@ace.netcins.ceid.upatras.gr> In-Reply-To: <200712182203.49414.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <1197889622.4766585626a92@webmail.rawbw.com> <20071218001355.GA40289@marvin.blogreen.org> <20071218055201.GB51227@ace.netcins.ceid.upatras.gr> <200712182203.49414.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:03:42PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Nikos Ntarmos wrote: > > Off the top of my head, what is wrong/hard with just logging a device > > failure, discarding all remaining cached operations, and unmounting > > the fs when a disk device goes missing? I understand that this is not > > a viable solution for critical filesystems, but I can see nothing > > wrong with this approach for removable devices and/or non-critical > > fs's. > > There was a long, long thread which discussed this earlier. > > It's easy to say what should be done, it's harder to submit patches > that clean up the respective failure modes. Point taken. Do you have any pointers to that thread? I did a quick search in hackers@ and current@ but failed to find anything relevant, other than people reporting related crashes and "don't do that, then"-type answers. \n\n -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Nikos Ntarmos <ntarmos@ceid.upatras.gr> iD8DBQFHaOZqm6J1ac+VFgoRAs/5AJ9sPZblF1T3MBkDP8K4ycRaFDf9KgCdH3oL u+43/UxmFZnclQvcI4K+Xh8= =E7ue -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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