[FreeBSD-Announce] Foundation Project Announcement

[Volker]

On 11/12/08 16:54, Deb Goodkin wrote:
> Dear FreeBSD Community,
> 
> The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce one of the projects from
> the accepted project proposals!
> 
> The project is to make FreeBSD tolerate the removal of active disk
> devices, such as when a USB flash device with a mounted filesystems is
> physically detached by a user.  Currently the system may panic in this
> situation. The work involves adding proper reference counting to
> strategic portions of the kernel and modifying filesystems to properly
> handle "device lost" errors.
> 
> Edward Tomasz Napierala is the developer working on this project.
> 
> "We are very excited to be able to fund this project, which we know is
> of great interest to our users, especially in the desktop space," said
> Robert Watson, president of The FreeBSD Foundation.
> 
> Robert also said, "The removable USB disk causing a crash turns out to
> be our #1 reported bug."
> 
> "I am very happy to have the opportunity to work on this exciting
> project," said Edward Tomasz Napierala, FreeBSD developer. "It's just
> wrong when the system panics because you removed the pendrive!," he added.
> 
> The project will be completed by February 2009.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> The FreeBSD Foundation

The bugbusting team is very, very much appreciating these efforts! ;)