kernel panic because I pulled a floppy?

[David Gerard]

Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> I'm reading "BSD Hacks" by Dru Lavigne, published by O'Reilly. In the
> section on managing floppies, it mentions that if you pull a floppy
> without umounting it first, the next time to try to access the
> filesystem, you'll get a kernel panic.
> Is this true? If so, it would be the very first Unix that I've seen
> crash from this kind of user-mistake.


I've crashed 5.x by pulling a USB umass device and then trying to look
at the directory where it was mounted.


- d.