kern/72119: Detaching USB Memory Stick w/o umount causes zombie devfs node

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Wed Mar 23 16:47:21 PST 2005



Jonas Nagel wrote:

>I don't understand how this is supposed to be a duplicate. The issue
>might be similar but in my case, the OS does NOT crash.
>
>My issue lies within the devfs, where a zombie device node remains,
>which has to be deleted and then recreated, while in the other case it's
>a straight kernel panic.
>
>But you might have deeper insights into the issue within...
>  
>
I believe that the device node continues to exist until the dead mount 
is forcibly unmounted..

probably one for Poul-Henning  (CC'd )



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