In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "[LoN]Kamikaze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : 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.
I'm pretty sure that 5.3 panics when you do this. At least my 5.3 machine at work did last time I tried it, which was just last week. Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"