Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:58:43 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: freebsd@meijome.net Cc: LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de, olli@lurza.secnetix.de, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, idiotbg@gmail.com, josh@tcbug.org Subject: Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot? Message-ID: <20070719.085843.84363305.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20070719130252.6880b967@localhost> References: <200707181703.07480.idiotbg@gmail.com> <200707181541.l6IFf4ht051775@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070719130252.6880b967@localhost>
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Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> writes:
: re. USB disks, could we not by default use amd to mount USB devices? It seems
: the obvious native replacement for hald + polkitd + dbus I use in XFCE with
: Thunar on my laptop...
Won't work. Once the device driver is already gone and devd/dbus gets
the notification, it is already too late. umount -f will cause I/O to
a device that no longer exists, causing the panic.
Warner
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