Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:46:04 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot? Message-ID: <f7lu6f$dd8$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20070718173406.GA16748@soaustin.net> References: <200707181541.l6IFf4ht051775@lurza.secnetix.de> <200707181830.48727.idiotbg@gmail.com> <20070718170559.GA11915@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20070718173406.GA16748@soaustin.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Mark Linimon wrote: > The reason is not the USB stack; the reason (IIRC) is that the FreeBSD > VM was written with the default assumption that Devices Never Go Away. > A large rewrite, I'm told, will be needed to fix this, and the code is > convoluted and tricky. I also feel that the "institutial knowledge" about the VM+VFS+UFS conglomerate seems to be going away. There were many attempts to port file systems to FreeBSD that have stopped dead once they've reached read-only phase, and recent problems with UFS looked really ugly (I don't even know if they are solved - I'm scared of filling up UFS drives right now :) ). My first production ZFS panicked the other day so ZFS is not yet the answer. (And yes, I know I'm complaining without suggesting solutions). [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGnnwMldnAQVacBcgRAsKeAKDJ9hFk5HqQT33Y80SHGrqG8zzLfQCg4omY hf/RXcdEOs0jhLouP20ML1Y= =Tt5T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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