removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

[Ivan Voras]

Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:

> One solution is (as mentioned) a userland filesystem that doesn't panic.
> automount approximates this if you set the disconnect interval short (< 5
> seconds).

Unfortunately the approximation is far from perfect because it takes
noticable time to mount a msdosfs on large drives (I think the FAT is
being read?).

> The other way to look at this, though, is the general goal of "not
> panicing"
> when it can be avoided.  As a research OS, it's my feeling that BSD derived
> unixes have followed the "if in doubt, panic" regime.  I don't think
> this is
> appropriate to a modern desktop or server OS.

Agreed very much, though some of the older hackers here seem to like the
old approach.

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