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Date:      Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:06:39 +0300
From:      Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_bio.c vfs_mount.c
Message-ID:  <20071229130639.GA82286@hades.panopticon>
In-Reply-To: <200712271638.lBRGcTu9071266@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200712271638.lBRGcTu9071266@repoman.freebsd.org>

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* Warner Losh (imp@FreeBSD.org) wrote:

>   A partial solution to some of the 'pull the umass device with a
>   mounted FS' problems.  These are more along the lines of 'avoiding an
>   avoidable panic' than a complete solution to removable devices.  We
>   now close the barn door after the horse has gotten lose and has been
>   hit by a truck, as it were.  The barn no longer catches fire in this
>   case, but the horse is still dead :-).
Cool, but won't that affect hard drives too? I mean when my hdd drive
goes offline, what I want is panic, to prevent possible [more] data
loss. If this commit affects anything besides removeable devices, my
opinion is this behavior should be reconsidered, or at least made
tunable. Or am I missing something?

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