Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:58:27 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de, idiotbg@gmail.com, josh@tcbug.org Subject: Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot? Message-ID: <469F0B93.9020409@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200707181541.l6IFf4ht051775@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200707181541.l6IFf4ht051775@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote: > Momchil Ivanov wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 July 2007 15:52:42 [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > > > Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > > Yes, it's expected behavior. The workaround is to not unplug mounted > > > > devices. (There's nothing special about USB here, if you unplugged an > > > > IDE drive you'd get the same behavior) > > > > > > Wouldn't it make some sense not to panic if mounted devices that are in > > > sync get removed? A few applications might get in trouble, but that's > > > hardly a reason to bring a whole system down. > > > > I don`t know how things work, but shutting down the system when some > > mounted fs is no longer present seems like the wrong thing to me. > > As Josh wrote, it's expected. The problem is known > to exist for a long time already (probably as long > as FreeBSD itself exists), and if there was an easy > solution, certainly someone would have fixed it. I remember on 5.3 I removed a mounted USB stick. The system did not panic, all I had to do was to plug the stick back in to be able to unmount it. So the behaviour has been more tolerant, in the past.
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