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Date:      Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:03:42 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Nikos Ntarmos <ntarmos@ceid.upatras.gr>
Subject:   Re: Stale mount on disconnected device: how to delete it?
Message-ID:  <200712182203.49414.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20071218055201.GB51227@ace.netcins.ceid.upatras.gr>
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Nikos Ntarmos wrote:
> Off the top of my head, what is wrong/hard with just logging a device
> failure, discarding all remaining cached operations, and unmounting
> the fs when a disk device goes missing? I understand that this is not
> a viable solution for critical filesystems, but I can see nothing
> wrong with this approach for removable devices and/or non-critical
> fs's.

There was a long, long thread which discussed this earlier.

It's easy to say what should be done, it's harder to submit patches that=20
clean up the respective failure modes.

=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
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