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> References: <1197889622.4766585626a92@webmail.rawbw.com> <20071218001355.GA40289@marvin.blogreen.org> <20071218055201.GB51227@ace.netcins.ceid.upatras.gr>
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--nextPart7090266.mINItEd91n Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart7090266.mINItEd91n Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHZ7Ad5ZPcIHs/zowRArzeAJ4m+0XQGpz9PBei1jYacmjDUyOc/gCfdwS0 DPePtOxwyKrQwIrCU643KEY= =Vg3T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7090266.mINItEd91n--
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