USB memory stick hotswap problems
Doug White
dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Sat Sep 25 13:26:29 PDT 2004
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Ivan Voras wrote:
> What is the expected behavour when umounting USB drives which have
> already been unplugged? :)
panic.
You must unmount volumes before removing them from the system. Otherwise
there is unflushed dirty data that will get lost, causing data corruption
on the volume. You will get a panic since the system doesn't know what to
do with the data and wants to avoid causing any further damage.
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