From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Mar 23 00:20:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA05263 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:20:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA05233; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:20:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:20:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803230820.AAA05233@hub.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: Zach Heilig Subject: Re: kern/4413 Reply-To: Zach Heilig Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/4413; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Zach Heilig To: Tim Vanderhoek , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Subject: Re: kern/4413 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 01:58:19 -0600 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message