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17.02.08, 16:51, "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>:
> Quoting the message you pointed out:
> "You might lose cached and in-flight data of course, and userspace
> applications may or may not handle the disappearance of their
> underlying filesystem with grace and aplomb :)"
> Perhaps you believe that allowing userland applications to lose data
> is not risky. I strongly disagree.

An userland application will be noticed by kernel and it may retransfer data. 
And i don't see here any problems. In FreeBSD case you will have a panic and 
crash. Also after panic you may lost a lot of data.

--
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov