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Date:      Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:33:06 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        William Denton <wtd@pobox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Crashing after umounting unavailable filesystems
Message-ID:  <20051113153258.R7337@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.63.0511101644570.15466@as2.dm.egate.net>
References:  <43726E40.3090701@iaces.com> <200511100943.30024.ringworm01@gmail.com> <4373A05F.3000104@iaces.com> <200511101140.01009.ringworm01@gmail.com> <Pine.BSF.4.63.0511101644570.15466@as2.dm.egate.net>

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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, William Denton wrote:

> On 10 November 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
>
> >> Opps, I crashed the machine. When I moved it, I unplugged the
> >> USB DVD-RW and I had mounted one of the dist discs on there.
> >> When I did a umount it paniced. My bad.
>
> That happened to me the other day too.  I'd mounted a USB flash drive,
> unplugged the USB hub, replugged it, remounted the drive, and then of
> course I couldn't umount the first mount.  I did a umount -f and the
> machine crashed instantly.
>
> Is this the sort of thing that's really hard to handle, or might it be
> safer one day?  I don't know how serious it is to do bad things to mounted
> file systems, but I'm curious.

Its Hard To Handle.

:-)

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Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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