removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2007-Jul-19 08:58:27 +0200, "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze at gmx.de> wrote:
>I remember on 5.3 I removed a mounted USB stick. The system did not panic, all
>I had to do was to plug the stick back in to be able to unmount it. So the
>behaviour has been more tolerant, in the past.

Did you or the syncer thread try to write to the stick whilst it was
absent?  If not then the OS would have been unaware of its absence.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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