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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:00:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Subject:   Re: Patch to fix panic when detaching a mounted md device
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010313110016.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200103131606.f2DG6QZ13532@billy-club.village.org>

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On 13-Mar-01 Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <5663.984480931@critter> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>: In message <20010313071744.C988C3E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org>, Dima Dorfman
>: write
>: s:
>: >Hello -hackers
>: >
>: >Right now, if you try to detach an md device that's currently mounted,
>: >you will get a panic (maybe not immedietely, but it will come, esp. 
>: 
>: This is intentional, I want md(4) to mimic the behaviour of "real"
>: disks as closely as possible, including the fact that it may disappear
>: without notice or caution.
> 
> We should then fix the rest of the system to deal with disks that
> disappear without notice.

At the very least the md code should propagate an error back up to the top
level and not panic.

> Warner

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