Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Wednesday 31 August 2005 12:34, Ben Kaduk wrote: > >>Of course, if you did unmount the filesystem before pulling the drive, then >>this shoule be looked into. > > > IMHO it would be really nice if you could tell the kernel that it should just > ditch the data (and whine to the log file) instead of panicing. > > For your "main" file systems the panic approach is sensible, but for removable > things it's more likely to cause data loss I think (because the panic could > eat data on your other drives). > > Although last time I saw this discussed I came away with the impression that > it wasn't possible for the kernel to do this..? (without substantial work > anyway) > Why not just use the automounter to mount/umount this for you? This probably won't get around umounting while in use, but you might be able to tell amd to use a umount -f on it. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Wed Aug 31 2005 - 10:49:18 UTC
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