Devd event from GEOM?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20050130161323.5e25414e at Magellan.Leidinger.net>, Alexander Leidinger writes:

>Let's take a CD for example, when it arrives the auto-mounter mounts it.
>Fine, but the CD is locked then. What do we do when we want to remove
>the CD? Or another example, an USB stick. The hardware isn't locked, but
>when we just remove it, we're calling for a kernel panic.

Now that local-storage filesystems are GEOM users, we can actually get
the "orphan" event from GEOM communicated to the filesystem which can
then take proper evasive action.

No filesystem has implemented this yet.

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