Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:59:19 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: Deb Goodkin <deb@freebsd.org>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] Foundation Project Announcement Message-ID: <200811121759.KAA00502@lariat.net> In-Reply-To: <491AFC2C.2030107@freebsd.org> References: <491AFC2C.2030107@freebsd.org>
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[Response to an announcement on the "FreeBSD-Announce" list] I hope that the project mentioned below includes an option to display a message which says, "Put that back!"... so that cached data can be written to the device and its consistency can be maintained. It might also be useful to add error recovery in situations where read-only media (e.g. a CD) is ejected. --Brett At 08:54 AM 11/12/2008, Deb Goodkin wrote: >Dear FreeBSD Community, > >The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce one of the projects from >the accepted project proposals! > >The project is to make FreeBSD tolerate the removal of active disk >devices, such as when a USB flash device with a mounted filesystems is >physically detached by a user. Currently the system may panic in this >situation. The work involves adding proper reference counting to >strategic portions of the kernel and modifying filesystems to properly >handle "device lost" errors. > >Edward Tomasz Napierala is the developer working on this project. > >"We are very excited to be able to fund this project, which we know is >of great interest to our users, especially in the desktop space," said >Robert Watson, president of The FreeBSD Foundation. > >Robert also said, "The removable USB disk causing a crash turns out to >be our #1 reported bug." > >"I am very happy to have the opportunity to work on this exciting >project," said Edward Tomasz Napierala, FreeBSD developer. "It's just >wrong when the system panics because you removed the pendrive!," he added. > >The project will be completed by February 2009. > >Sincerely, > >The FreeBSD Foundation > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-announce@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-announce >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-announce-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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