Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:58:47 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, idiotbg@gmail.com, josh@tcbug.org Subject: Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot? Message-ID: <20070719145847.GA36856@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20070719.084821.-202614780.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200707181541.l6IFf4ht051775@lurza.secnetix.de> <200707181830.48727.idiotbg@gmail.com> <20070718170559.GA11915@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20070719.084821.-202614780.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:48:21AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20070718170559.GA11915@eos.sc1.parodius.com> > Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> writes: > : If someone wants to work on this and needs devices/toys (thumb drives, > : external enclosures + hard disks), let me know, I will be more than > : happy to buy them the hardware needed. > > Willing to fund the work on it too? This is a volunteer project, and > you have to motivate people to work on this. I'm one man with a single day job. I only make so much money a year, most of which goes to rent and co-location bills. Remaining amounts usually go to small hobby projects of mine, or donating money to folks like phk@ to work on features that I'll benefit from (serial console work comes to mind, ditto with BTX fixes). What I'm saying is that I can't afford (literally -- I don't have the cash) to pay someone US$40/hour for programming efforts (especially when I know it'd be a 8-12 week job), but I *can* afford to donate a few hundred bucks getting someone hardware who has the know-how to fix or test things much better than myself. Most of the time though I'm told "I have the hardware I need -- it's a matter of finding the time!" Ain't that the truth. :-) Besides working on ports (which I've been slacking on as of late), this is how I try to help/contribute to the FreeBSD community. > The best one can do without massive buffer cache work is what firewire > does: it has one attachment to handle all umass devices. When the > device goes away, it pauses all operations to that device. If the > device comes back, it resumes the I/O . If the device never comes > back, then the I/O never finishes. This sounds good. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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