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Date:      Sat, 04 Aug 2001 08:22:21 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/md md.c 
Message-ID:  <15171.996906141@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:22:11 PDT." <20010803202216.30EB13E31@bazooka.unixfreak.org> 

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In message <20010803202216.30EB13E31@bazooka.unixfreak.org>, Dima Dorfman writes:
>Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> sobomax     2001/08/02 03:19:14 PDT
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/dev/md           md.c 
>>   Log:
>>   - Deny detaching requests until device is still open, otherwise it is possible
>>     to hang or panic kernel by detaching disk from which fs is mounted;
>
>When I proposed a similar patch some time ago, phk said that he would
>like md(4) to behave "as much like a real disk as possible", which
>included being able to go offline at any moment (in md terms, this
>would mean detaching).  This would be useful for testing such things
>as a removable ATA flash drive going away.

Right, I still feel that, but I also realize that POLA shouldn't be
violated too much.  

I like you -force patch, it's a good compromise.



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