On Wednesday 25 February 2009 15:07:06 Marco wrote:
> hello list,
>
> i ran into a lot of crashes because of problems with externally mounted
> devices through usb. after successful mount, an ejecting of the device,
> w/o unmounting it, ususally results in a freeze of the system, followed
> by reboot. also with defect hardware, or cable problems this occurs. is
> there a way to protect my running os from such behavior, any kind of
> flag i could set?
Not until usb-2. There's work in progress for this issue. OpenBSD solved it
last year, by refactoring all the locking for mounts if I recall correctly.
It's harder in FreeBSD.
I doubt this will hit the 7.x tree, but it might happen.
I looked for status on this project, can't seem to find it atm.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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