Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:00:24 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de Cc: josh@tcbug.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, idiotbg@gmail.com Subject: Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot? Message-ID: <20070719.090024.-1548242272.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <469F0B93.9020409@gmx.de> References: <200707181541.l6IFf4ht051775@lurza.secnetix.de> <469F0B93.9020409@gmx.de>
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"[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> writes:
: Oliver Fromme wrote:
: > Momchil Ivanov wrote:
: > > On Wednesday 18 July 2007 15:52:42 [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
: > > > Josh Paetzel wrote:
: > > > > Yes, it's expected behavior. The workaround is to not unplug mounted
: > > > > devices. (There's nothing special about USB here, if you unplugged an
: > > > > IDE drive you'd get the same behavior)
: > > >
: > > > Wouldn't it make some sense not to panic if mounted devices that are in
: > > > sync get removed? A few applications might get in trouble, but that's
: > > > hardly a reason to bring a whole system down.
: > >
: > > I don`t know how things work, but shutting down the system when some
: > > mounted fs is no longer present seems like the wrong thing to me.
: >
: > As Josh wrote, it's expected. The problem is known
: > to exist for a long time already (probably as long
: > as FreeBSD itself exists), and if there was an easy
: > solution, certainly someone would have fixed it.
:
: I remember on 5.3 I removed a mounted USB stick. The system did not panic, all
: I had to do was to plug the stick back in to be able to unmount it. So the
: behaviour has been more tolerant, in the past.
I'm pretty sure that 5.3 panics when you do this. At least my 5.3
machine at work did last time I tried it, which was just last week.
Warner
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