Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:17:58 +0100 From: Volker <volker@vwsoft.com> To: Deb Goodkin <deb@freebsd.org> Cc: bugbusters@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] Foundation Project Announcement Message-ID: <491B4806.3080500@vwsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <491AFC2C.2030107@freebsd.org> References: <491AFC2C.2030107@freebsd.org>
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On 11/12/08 16:54, Deb Goodkin wrote: > Dear FreeBSD Community, > > The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce one of the projects from > the accepted project proposals! > > The project is to make FreeBSD tolerate the removal of active disk > devices, such as when a USB flash device with a mounted filesystems is > physically detached by a user. Currently the system may panic in this > situation. The work involves adding proper reference counting to > strategic portions of the kernel and modifying filesystems to properly > handle "device lost" errors. > > Edward Tomasz Napierala is the developer working on this project. > > "We are very excited to be able to fund this project, which we know is > of great interest to our users, especially in the desktop space," said > Robert Watson, president of The FreeBSD Foundation. > > Robert also said, "The removable USB disk causing a crash turns out to > be our #1 reported bug." > > "I am very happy to have the opportunity to work on this exciting > project," said Edward Tomasz Napierala, FreeBSD developer. "It's just > wrong when the system panics because you removed the pendrive!," he added. > > The project will be completed by February 2009. > > Sincerely, > > The FreeBSD Foundation The bugbusting team is very, very much appreciating these efforts! ;)
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