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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, 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

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