removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

[Andriy Gapon]

on 19/07/2007 13:03 Daniel O'Connor said the following:
> Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> Well, here's my two kopiykas.
>> Apparently there is somebody who tried to fix this problem, but for some
>> reason (most probably language barrier) his attempt is largely unnoticed
>> so far.
>>
>> Here is a link to a posting to freebsd-fs:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2007-June/003370.html
> 
> The language barrier won't help, especially since there is no English 
> discussion about how the patch works.

Well, barriers usually stop something :-)
There are some comments in Russian, maybe someone will find time to
translate, maybe even me...

> FreeBSD VFS comitters are rare, ones that understand Russian are 
> probably almost non-existent :)

There's always a chance.

> Also it would be nice if the patch was a unified diff rather than 
> x-patch as that makes it much easier to review.

Patches _are_ unified diffs. The fact that some not-so-smart software
decided that "text/x-patch" is "a non-text attachment" is indeed
inconvenient.

-- 
Andriy Gapon