Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:30:47 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot? Message-ID: <f7lt9q$abd$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <5f67a8c40707181011n768ad311y9a9dd76a59dde428@mail.gmail.com> References: <200707181541.l6IFf4ht051775@lurza.secnetix.de> <200707181830.48727.idiotbg@gmail.com> <20070718163642.GY36311@gremlin.foo.is> <5f67a8c40707181011n768ad311y9a9dd76a59dde428@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > One solution is (as mentioned) a userland filesystem that doesn't panic. > automount approximates this if you set the disconnect interval short (< 5 > seconds). Unfortunately the approximation is far from perfect because it takes noticable time to mount a msdosfs on large drives (I think the FAT is being read?). > The other way to look at this, though, is the general goal of "not > panicing" > when it can be avoided. As a research OS, it's my feeling that BSD derived > unixes have followed the "if in doubt, panic" regime. I don't think > this is > appropriate to a modern desktop or server OS. Agreed very much, though some of the older hackers here seem to like the old approach. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGnnh3ldnAQVacBcgRApuFAJ9xLjx4tSGVBuawXefYS4CO615fngCfRuy2 aZmzTMl0+aP2fGdibTRRhuU= =IvRz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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