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Date:      Mon, 23 Mar 1998 01:58:19 -0600
From:      Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com>
To:        Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/4413
Message-ID:  <19980323015819.02550@gaffaneys.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803230633.WAA07390@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Sun, Mar 22, 1998 at 10:33:28PM -0800
References:  <199803230633.WAA07390@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Mar 22, 1998 at 10:33:28PM -0800, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> Synopsis: No way to unmount a floppy that goes bad while mounted.

> State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
> State-Changed-By: hoek
> State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 22 22:30:43 PST 1998
> State-Changed-Why: 
> You should have tried ``umount -f''.

> Anyways, I trashed a floppy trying to duplicate this, and, while it
> will never mount again, it umounted quite happily (even without -f)
> (although perhaps the floppy was doubly wasted since now that I think
> of it, I didn't actually write anything to the floppy before umounting :-(.

I did try 'umount -f' at that time.  Someone else responded back then, noting
that the floppy driver returned an error, which the filesystem paid attention
to (and refused to unmount it).  I'm pretty sure I had dirty buffers when the
floppy went bad.

However, this may have been fixed near that time (he seemed to know what the
problem was), but the PR left open.

-- 
Zach Heilig -- zach@gaffaneys.com
Real Programs don't use shared text.  Otherwise, how can they use
functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?

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