Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:43:22 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: buffers not syncing correctly during shutdown Message-ID: <4AD5D57A.9090900@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20091014151026.699a5765@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <permail-200910141049541e86ffa80000566c-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> <20091014151026.699a5765@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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on 14/10/2009 16:10 Gary Jennejohn said the following: > > I'm inclined to say that umount'ing the file systems is failing because > you pulled the USB stick out without doing umount. Of course, that > results in all file systems still being marked dirty. Obviously, this > pathological case isn't being handled. > > I personally don't see why it ever should be handled. This is UNIX not > Windows and users should be smart enough to know that they umount such > devices before removing them otherwise nasty things can happen. There was a specific project funded by FreeBSD Foundation to handle issues like this. UNIX does not have to have deficiencies in comparison with Windows, and mistakes / emergency situations do happen. Developer who worked on the mentioned above project has expressed interest in resolving this issue. -- Andriy Gapon
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