Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:06:46 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Kyle Brooks <captinsmock@columbus.rr.com>, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> Subject: Re: panic after removing usb flash drive Message-ID: <200508311306.46876.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <47d0403c05083020044f6ac0be@mail.gmail.com> References: <1125452228.740.3.camel@arbitor.homelinux.com> <47d0403c05083020044f6ac0be@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wednesday 31 August 2005 12:34, Ben Kaduk wrote: > Of course, if you did unmount the filesystem before pulling the drive, then > this shoule be looked into. IMHO it would be really nice if you could tell the kernel that it should just ditch the data (and whine to the log file) instead of panicing. For your "main" file systems the panic approach is sensible, but for removable things it's more likely to cause data loss I think (because the panic could eat data on your other drives). Although last time I saw this discussed I came away with the impression that it wasn't possible for the kernel to do this..? (without substantial work anyway) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDFSXO5ZPcIHs/zowRAkomAJ9QLe0NWPOuNZt3bps9WJv7fSaVNwCeMAn6 lj8cxOOehWU4+j7Ow/Ik9lw= =cyPY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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