panic: mount: lost mount

[Andy Farkas]

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2003, Jun Kuriyama wrote:
>
> > With today's current, I've got a panic with bad floppy.
> >
> > fd0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 57 of 56-63 (ST0 44<abnrml,top_head> ST1 20<bad_crc> ST2 20<bad_crc> cyl 1 hd 1 sec 4)
> > panic: mount: lost mount
> > cpuid = 1; lapic.id = 01000000
> > Debugger("panic")
> > Stopped at      Debugger+0x55:  xchgl   %ebx,in_Debugger.0
> > db> trace
> > Debugger(c03eb40e,1000000,c03f085e,ebc05b80,1) at Debugger+0x55
> > panic(c03f085e,ebc05ba4,c03f0812,46a,c896b720) at panic+0x11f
> > vfs_mount(c896b720,c7eafd40,c8a32b80,0,bfbfece0) at vfs_mount+0xa80
> > mount(c896b720,ebc05d10,c0407bf6,3fb,4) at mount+0xb8
> > syscall(2f,2f,2f,80a210f,bfbff6a4) at syscall+0x26e
> > Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x1d
>
> Unfortunately, this is fairly normal file system behaviour when a critical
> block is unreadable or damaged.  Here vfs detects a problem that it knows
> it cannot handle, and panics.

Is there any way to indicate that this was removable media to vfs? Maybe
it could not panic in this case but rather fail gracefully.

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        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
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