GEOM: orphaning open devices

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Jun 17 12:31:09 GMT 2004


In message <20040617140822.M58154 at pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>, Lukas Ertl writes:

>Hm, on closer look it seems the disk controller/driver doesn't let the 
>drive go.

My conclusion too.  This is probably because it usually would have
paniced the system to do so.

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