cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_bio.c vfs_mount.c

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20071229130639.GA82286 at hades.panopticon>
            Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru> writes:
: * Warner Losh (imp at FreeBSD.org) wrote:
: 
: >   A partial solution to some of the 'pull the umass device with a
: >   mounted FS' problems.  These are more along the lines of 'avoiding an
: >   avoidable panic' than a complete solution to removable devices.  We
: >   now close the barn door after the horse has gotten lose and has been
: >   hit by a truck, as it were.  The barn no longer catches fire in this
: >   case, but the horse is still dead :-).
: Cool, but won't that affect hard drives too? I mean when my hdd drive
: goes offline, what I want is panic, to prevent possible [more] data
: loss. If this commit affects anything besides removeable devices, my
: opinion is this behavior should be reconsidered, or at least made
: tunable. Or am I missing something?

You don't want a panic like this...

Warner