From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 5 05:23:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A2C616A41C for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 05:23:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (lexi.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29AFD43D45 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 05:23:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lexi.siliconlandmark.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j655NRAO079388; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 01:23:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by lexi.siliconlandmark.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id j655NRie079385; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 01:23:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) X-Authentication-Warning: lexi.siliconlandmark.com: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 01:23:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= In-Reply-To: <42C970CD.9070905@cs.tu-berlin.de> Message-ID: <20050705012106.A80892@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> References: <20050703112108.F474@free.home.local> <20050703124901.M80892@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <42C970CD.9070905@cs.tu-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-343237658-1120541007=:80892" X-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-SL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-SL-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.54, required 6, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.06, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: andy@siliconlandmark.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fatal trap 12 if you unmount detached umass device X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 05:23:33 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-343237658-1120541007=:80892 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Bj=F6rn K=F6nig wrote: > Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > >> 1. Don't do that > > It concerns not only USB drives, but any kind of removable media, even fl= oppy=20 > disks. A lot of people tend to remove floppy disks without unmounting the= =20 > filesystem before and I think it's unacceptable to let users reboot their= =20 > machine if they did this mistake. You won't hear any arguments from anyone on this one. The itch is there=20 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 th= is=20 > annoying behaviour. I would gladly do so myself, if I had the time. Alas, I am currently=20 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. */ --0-343237658-1120541007=:80892--