Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:52:42 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Momchil Ivanov <idiotbg@gmail.com> Subject: Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot? Message-ID: <469E1B2A.3030901@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200707180839.50113.josh@tcbug.org> References: <200707181142.27240.idiotbg@gmail.com> <200707180839.50113.josh@tcbug.org>
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Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Momchil Ivanov wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #11: Sat Jul 14 16:27:12 CEST 2007 >> and accidently unplugged the USB hub to which my external hdd >> together with a mouse were connected and this caused my machine to >> freeze for some seconds and then reboot. At that moment the hdd was >> mounted and I was playing music out of it. >> After that I tried to reproduce it :) so just plugged only the hdd >> directly, mounted it and started playing music files from it. When >> I unplugged the USB cable the same thing happened: short freeze, >> and then reboot. Is this expected behaviour? And is there some way >> to avoid the freeze and reboot? >> >> Thanks. > > Yes, it's expected behavior. The workaround is to not unplug mounted > devices. (There's nothing special about USB here, if you unplugged an > IDE drive you'd get the same behavior) > Wouldn't it make some sense not to panic if mounted devices that are in sync get removed? A few applications might get in trouble, but that's hardly a reason to bring a whole system down.
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