From owner-freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 21:42:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: bugbusters@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB3E106564A for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:42:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from frontmail.ipactive.de (frontmail.maindns.de [85.214.95.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C148FC12 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:42:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from mail.vtec.ipme.de (Q7cfa.q.ppp-pool.de [89.53.124.250]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by frontmail.ipactive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A46512883F; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:18:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from cesar.sz.vwsoft.com (unknown [192.168.18.3]) by mail.vtec.ipme.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9DF62E90F; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:17:58 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <491B4806.3080500@vwsoft.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:17:58 +0100 From: Volker User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080930) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Deb Goodkin References: <491AFC2C.2030107@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <491AFC2C.2030107@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1227129488.37622@zuNRXsBOlWJ/Bnz7wOwHcA X-MailScanner-ID: B9DF62E90F.D3564 X-VWSoft-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com X-ipactive-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ipactive-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ipactive-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com Cc: bugbusters@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] Foundation Project Announcement X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Coordination of the Problem Report handling effort." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:42:23 -0000 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! ;)