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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=C2=B4t do it. device busy", although there was (apparently) not=
hing
> 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=C2=B4t know when =
I am
> gonna hit a case that doesn=C2=B4t belong to "most", I always try to reme=
mber
> 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
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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