On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:11:57PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I started this discussion on linux-kernel. > > But I doubt that only reiserfs is to blame. I get a similar > problem (crash at shutdown), if I format the USB disk using > ext3. > > The problem is that at shutdown time the USB stuff is deregistered > without unmounting the filesystems on the USB disks first.
Actually, there are two problems:
(1) USB is shut down before disks are unmounted
(2) Filesystems are not hot-plug capable.
> >>Would it be possible to add some automagic code to
> >>enforce unmounting the USB storage devices before
> >>the USB bus is shutdown?
> >
> >
> > Sure, just modify your shutdown scripts to do this, it's not a kernel
> > issue :)
> >
> Shouldn't there be some 'device busy' message if I try
> to stop the USB without unmounting the USB storage?
Nope. To the system, it looks like you just unplugged the device. So
there is no 'busy' message.
Matt
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