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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:34:23 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Patch to fix panic when detaching a mounted md device 
Message-ID:  <8773.984501263@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:06:26 MST." <200103131606.f2DG6QZ13532@billy-club.village.org> 

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In message <200103131606.f2DG6QZ13532@billy-club.village.org>, Warner Losh writ
es:
>In message <5663.984480931@critter> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>: In message <20010313071744.C988C3E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org>, Dima Dorfman write
>: s:
>: >Hello -hackers
>: >
>: >Right now, if you try to detach an md device that's currently mounted,
>: >you will get a panic (maybe not immedietely, but it will come, esp. 
>: 
>: This is intentional, I want md(4) to mimic the behaviour of "real"
>: disks as closely as possible, including the fact that it may disappear
>: without notice or caution.
>
>We should then fix the rest of the system to deal with disks that
>disappear without notice.

That was the point yes :-)

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