kernel panic because I pulled a floppy?

Michael P. Soulier msoulier at digitaltorque.ca
Mon Dec 5 05:37:27 PST 2005


On 12/4/05, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > Is this true? If so, it would be the very first Unix that I've seen
> > crash from this kind of user-mistake.
>
> Turns out it's pretty hard to fix.

Well, all I know is that it does happen on Linux, Solaris... I don't
recall seeing it on HP-UX...

I've popped floppies on those OSs before without incident when I went
back to the directory. Luckily it's avoidable, just a little
disappointing given FreeBSD's rock-solid reputation.

Mike
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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca>


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