Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:48:39 -0500 (EST) From: William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Crashing after umounting unavailable filesystems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.63.0511101644570.15466@as2.dm.egate.net> In-Reply-To: <200511101140.01009.ringworm01@gmail.com> References: <43726E40.3090701@iaces.com> <200511100943.30024.ringworm01@gmail.com> <4373A05F.3000104@iaces.com> <200511101140.01009.ringworm01@gmail.com>
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On 10 November 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: >> Opps, I crashed the machine. When I moved it, I unplugged the >> USB DVD-RW and I had mounted one of the dist discs on there. >> When I did a umount it paniced. My bad. That happened to me the other day too. I'd mounted a USB flash drive, unplugged the USB hub, replugged it, remounted the drive, and then of course I couldn't umount the first mount. I did a umount -f and the machine crashed instantly. Is this the sort of thing that's really hard to handle, or might it be safer one day? I don't know how serious it is to do bad things to mounted file systems, but I'm curious. Bill -- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : www.miskatonic.org : www.frbr.org
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