Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:37:40 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel panic because I pulled a floppy? Message-ID: <20051205033740.GA31956@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <fb6605670512041432w6e272c20yd5af3d727ada4c5f@mail.gmail.com> References: <fb6605670512041432w6e272c20yd5af3d727ada4c5f@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 05:32:42PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm reading "BSD Hacks" by Dru Lavigne, published by O'Reilly. In the > section on managing floppies, it mentions that if you pull a floppy > without umounting it first, the next time to try to access the > filesystem, you'll get a kernel panic. > > Is this true? If so, it would be the very first Unix that I've seen > crash from this kind of user-mistake. Turns out it's pretty hard to fix. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDk7YEWry0BWjoQKURAsmtAKDBq9TF7gtfwrD142VCRN1yot9c6wCg/w/B +G9DJmtQ+4TtXXm6ASrIuaI= =6BPz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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