Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:42:17 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Subject: Re: USB memory stick hotswap problems Message-ID: <200409261142.24759.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040926005943.GA61350@parodius.com> References: <41555396.4030009@fer.hr> <20040926021347.721a025f.benlutz@datacomm.ch> <20040926005943.GA61350@parodius.com>
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--nextPart2509521.9Y24kvryh8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:29, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Can't usbd (or better yet, usbd.conf) be modified or changed in some way > to automatically handle the unmounting of any existing filesystems that > match the device which is mounted? > > Seems like we're eventually going to need this to make hot-swappable USB > devices more friendly. I understand why you must unmount a device > before SCSI CAM gets disconnected from it, but it just seems that this > should be a job for usbd. The problem is that once the device is removed it's too late :( One possibility would be to add a facility to mark all the data for a certa= in=20 device to be non-critical so it will throw it away when it tries to flush i= t=20 and fails instead of panicing. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2509521.9Y24kvryh8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBViWI5ZPcIHs/zowRAuZJAJ4xH1SntGmEMgya5NGgyoKS65ugHACeK93A psXCMoXqk39fho27bzIGhOQ= =AqHb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2509521.9Y24kvryh8--
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