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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--nextPart3855473.0QIpjHGBHX Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 31 August 2005 12:34, Ben Kaduk wrote: > Of course, if you did unmount the filesystem before pulling the drive, th= en > this shoule be looked into. IMHO it would be really nice if you could tell the kernel that it should ju= st=20 ditch the data (and whine to the log file) instead of panicing. =46or your "main" file systems the panic approach is sensible, but for remo= vable=20 things it's more likely to cause data loss I think (because the panic could= =20 eat data on your other drives). Although last time I saw this discussed I came away with the impression tha= t=20 it wasn't possible for the kernel to do this..? (without substantial work=20 anyway) =2D-=20 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 --nextPart3855473.0QIpjHGBHX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDFSXO5ZPcIHs/zowRAkomAJ9QLe0NWPOuNZt3bps9WJv7fSaVNwCeMAn6 lj8cxOOehWU4+j7Ow/Ik9lw= =cyPY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3855473.0QIpjHGBHX--
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