Re: USB memory stick hotswap problems

From: Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:26:28 -0700 (PDT)
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Ivan Voras wrote:

> What is the expected behavour when umounting USB drives which have
> already been unplugged? :)

panic.

You must unmount volumes before removing them from the system. Otherwise
there is unflushed dirty data that will get lost, causing data corruption
on the volume.  You will get a panic since the system doesn't know what to
do with the data and wants to avoid causing any further damage.

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Received on Sat Sep 25 2004 - 18:26:29 UTC

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