From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 13:00:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC6E16A41F for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:00:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF1443D5C for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:00:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp215-145.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.215.145]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7VD0TM7002205 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:30:36 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Eric Anderson Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:30:12 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <1125452228.740.3.camel@arbitor.homelinux.com> <200508311306.46876.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <4315A757.5020108@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4315A757.5020108@centtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3010421.UUNVzW7rWS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200508312230.20301.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic after removing usb flash drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:00:43 -0000 --nextPart3010421.UUNVzW7rWS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 31 August 2005 22:19, Eric Anderson wrote: > > 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 substanti= al > > work anyway) > > Why not just use the automounter to mount/umount this for you? This > probably won't get around umounting while in use, but you might be able > to tell amd to use a umount -f on it. I would have thought you'd still get a panic anyway..? The VM will try and flush the dirty pages when you umount and consequently= =20 panic. =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 --nextPart3010421.UUNVzW7rWS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDFank5ZPcIHs/zowRAkvfAJ96Lnl3gz3nms2U651SxEUFqEDPswCfQmDZ eMx15OQsxvaeLdag8xvKCyU= =YPSq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3010421.UUNVzW7rWS--