buffers not syncing correctly during shutdown
Andriy Gapon
avg at icyb.net.ua
Wed Oct 14 13:43:29 UTC 2009
on 14/10/2009 16:10 Gary Jennejohn said the following:
>
> I'm inclined to say that umount'ing the file systems is failing because
> you pulled the USB stick out without doing umount. Of course, that
> results in all file systems still being marked dirty. Obviously, this
> pathological case isn't being handled.
>
> I personally don't see why it ever should be handled. This is UNIX not
> Windows and users should be smart enough to know that they umount such
> devices before removing them otherwise nasty things can happen.
There was a specific project funded by FreeBSD Foundation to handle issues like
this. UNIX does not have to have deficiencies in comparison with Windows, and
mistakes / emergency situations do happen.
Developer who worked on the mentioned above project has expressed interest in
resolving this issue.
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Andriy Gapon
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