4.x device failure?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.60.0409131202270.6275 at athena>, Sam writes:
>

>Surely there's a way to pull a disk out from under
>those that have it open without a panic?  Opinions?

No, we're not quite there yet.  I/O errors from disk devices very
often leads to filesystem or buffer cache panics.  We're working
on it.

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