What's required to make removal of a mounted USB stick safe?

[Wojciech Puchar]

> - Deep kernel work (dont hold your breath, see 30 above, & don't look at me :-)
> - Cobble up some C to run from user space, not as root,
>  so that your UFS is not mounted, but accessed by user level
>  programs (much like mwrite & mread for accessing DOS media of old)
> - man 8 amd : set a short timeout to auto unmount,
>  it wont total solve your problem, but should lessen the frequency of panics.
> - Mount the USB media on a spare laptop running as an NFS+ AMD server,
>  then access the FS via NFS from your real client big PC.  When
>  you pull the stick by accident forgetting its mounted, just the
>  laptop crashes afte a bit, the AMD access on the other PC just
>  hangs but doesnt crash.
> - Encourage A SOC (google summer of code) student to look at it,
>  probably wont come to a solution though, see 30 above.
> - Toss money at the problem :-) If your company can afford some cash, either:
>  - help fund FreeBSD Foundation & ask them to solve it,
>  - Or pay some consultant somewhere to look at it, Here's a globaly
>    geographicaly indexed list http://berklix.com/consultants/
>    maybe there's one near your company ?
- mount using fuse