panic after removing usb flash disk

Svein Halvor Halvorsen svein.h at lvor.halvorsen.cc
Fri Aug 17 01:18:36 PDT 2007


Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
>  > Artem Kuchin wrote:
>  > > [FreeBSD crashes when a mounted device disappears]
>  > 
>  > It's not a bug, it's a feature.
> 
> I certainly wouldn't call it a feature.  As others have
> noted, it is a known shortcoming in FreeBSD, and fixing
> it is non-trivial.

Could someone point me in some general direction, as to where I
could learn more about the path a read/write request will take
through all the different kernel layers? I doubt I will be able to
fix anything, but it would be interesting to learn.


					Svein Halvor


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