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Date:      Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:37:40 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel panic because I pulled a floppy?
Message-ID:  <20051205033740.GA31956@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <fb6605670512041432w6e272c20yd5af3d727ada4c5f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <fb6605670512041432w6e272c20yd5af3d727ada4c5f@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 05:32:42PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hey all,
>=20
> I'm reading "BSD Hacks" by Dru Lavigne, published by O'Reilly. In the
> section on managing floppies, it mentions that if you pull a floppy
> without umounting it first, the next time to try to access the
> filesystem, you'll get a kernel panic.
>=20
> Is this true? If so, it would be the very first Unix that I've seen
> crash from this kind of user-mistake.

Turns out it's pretty hard to fix.

Kris

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