-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:03:42PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Nikos Ntarmos wrote: > > Off the top of my head, what is wrong/hard with just logging a device > > failure, discarding all remaining cached operations, and unmounting > > the fs when a disk device goes missing? I understand that this is not > > a viable solution for critical filesystems, but I can see nothing > > wrong with this approach for removable devices and/or non-critical > > fs's. > > There was a long, long thread which discussed this earlier. > > It's easy to say what should be done, it's harder to submit patches > that clean up the respective failure modes.
Point taken. Do you have any pointers to that thread? I did a quick search in hackers@ and current@ but failed to find anything relevant, other than people reporting related crashes and "don't do that, then"-type answers. \n\n -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Nikos Ntarmos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iD8DBQFHaOZqm6J1ac+VFgoRAs/5AJ9sPZblF1T3MBkDP8K4ycRaFDf9KgCdH3oL u+43/UxmFZnclQvcI4K+Xh8= =E7ue -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
