On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Boris Kochergin <spawk_at_acm.poly.edu> wrote: >> Exactly. One area where the kernel should be made more robust >> is UFS with disappearing disks (e.g. USB mounted file systems, >> or, as recently happened here with a loose external SATA cable). >> Panicing here is REALLY annoying. ;-) > > Getting slightly off-topic here, but... there was progress made on this > front a while ago. You can reliably detach at least USB storage with a > mounted MSDOSFS or UFS filesystem without soft updates and not risk a system > panic. There will be a panic if soft updates are enabled on UFS, however, at > least as of my last test in 2010. Hmmm... yes, you're absolutely right: every time I had those panics was with softupdates enabled. No recent panic with UFS without softupdates that I remember, nor with msdosfs btw. > -Boris -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/Received on Tue Jan 11 2011 - 19:54:34 UTC
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