Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 01:23:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fatal trap 12 if you unmount detached umass device Message-ID: <20050705012106.A80892@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <42C970CD.9070905@cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <20050703112108.F474@free.home.local> <20050703124901.M80892@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <42C970CD.9070905@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Björn König wrote: > Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > >> 1. Don't do that > > It concerns not only USB drives, but any kind of removable media, even floppy > disks. A lot of people tend to remove floppy disks without unmounting the > filesystem before and I think it's unacceptable to let users reboot their > machine if they did this mistake. You won't hear any arguments from anyone on this one. The itch is there for someone to scratch... >> (If you're going to do it, try umount -f). > > ... which causes the death of a machine if you do this twice. Right. > I prepared myself to step into the source code next month to eliminate this > annoying behaviour. I would gladly do so myself, if I had the time. Alas, I am currently involved in a number of projects which are chewing up all of my time... :( Regards, Andy /* Andre Guibert de Bruet * 6f43 6564 7020 656f 2e74 4220 7469 6a20 */ /* Code poet / Sysadmin * 636f 656b 2e79 5320 7379 6461 696d 2e6e */ /* GSM: +1 734 846 8758 * 5520 494e 2058 6c73 7565 6874 002e 0000 */ /* WWW: siliconlandmark.com * Tormenting bytes since 1980. */
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