Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:20:35 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: imp@bsdimp.com Subject: Re: Devd event from GEOM? Message-ID: <69175.1107098435@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:13:23 %2B0100." <20050130161323.5e25414e@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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In message <20050130161323.5e25414e@Magellan.Leidinger.net>, Alexander Leidinger writes: >Let's take a CD for example, when it arrives the auto-mounter mounts it. >Fine, but the CD is locked then. What do we do when we want to remove >the CD? Or another example, an USB stick. The hardware isn't locked, but >when we just remove it, we're calling for a kernel panic. Now that local-storage filesystems are GEOM users, we can actually get the "orphan" event from GEOM communicated to the filesystem which can then take proper evasive action. No filesystem has implemented this yet. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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