Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:34:52 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: "Mario Lobo" <mlobo@digiart.art.br> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buffers not syncing correctly during shutdown Message-ID: <86my3tyas3.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <26594.200.249.56.17.1255540574.squirrel@squirrel.sv4.hmnoc.net> (Mario Lobo's message of "Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:16:14 -0300 (BRT)") References: <permail-200910141049541e86ffa80000566c-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> <20091014151026.699a5765@ernst.jennejohn.org> <18175.200.249.56.17.1255528438.squirrel@squirrel.sv4.hmnoc.net> <86vdiix775.fsf@ds4.des.no> <26594.200.249.56.17.1255540574.squirrel@squirrel.sv4.hmnoc.net>
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"Mario Lobo" <mlobo@digiart.art.br> writes: > That IS true ! but like you said, "most cases" <> "all cases". Once, on a > company I was doing work at, I clicked on "Safely Remove Hardware" and it > said "can´t do it. device busy", although there was (apparently) nothing > using any files from the stick. I yanked it out anyway. result: the 3 > files I edited from the stick were gone :(. Since I don´t know when I am > gonna hit a case that doesn´t belong to "most", I always try to remember > to unmount (i.e. Safely Remove Hardware) the stick before unplugging it. Always a good idea - but my point was that Windows's "safely remove hardware" feature should not be construed as an excuse for FreeBSD to hang or crash when you remove a disk or memory stick. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.nohome | help
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