usb/107572: Immidiate System Reboot after removing an activeusb-stick

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Mon Jan 8 15:30:30 UTC 2007


The following reply was made to PR usb/107572; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at Leidinger.net>
To: Andreas Burghardt <a-burghardt at gmx.de>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: usb/107572: Immidiate System Reboot after removing an
	activeusb-stick
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:58:27 +0100

 Quoting Andreas Burghardt <a-burghardt at gmx.de> (from Fri, 5 Jan 2007  
 17:16:47 GMT):
 
 >> Description:
 > I removed a Job-it (2.0 USB, 1GB) USB-Stick from its slot while a   
 > file copy to this stick was still in progress. The result was an   
 > immidiate reboot of FreeBSD without syncing or unmounting any logal   
 > file systems.
 
 Yes, removing a stick while the FS is still mounted or a direct access  
 is in progress is something you should not do. This is a known  
 problem. The workaround for now: don't do that!
 
 Bye,
 Alexander.
 
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