kern/72119: Detaching USB Memory Stick w/o umount causes zombie devfs node

[Julian Elischer]

The following reply was made to PR kern/72119; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org>
To: Jonas Nagel <fireball at zerouptime.ch>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org,
	Ian Dowse <iedowse at freebsd.org>, freebsd-usb at freebsd.org,
	Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
Subject: Re: kern/72119: Detaching USB Memory Stick w/o umount causes zombie
 devfs node
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:47:18 -0800

 Jonas Nagel wrote:
 
 >I don't understand how this is supposed to be a duplicate. The issue
 >might be similar but in my case, the OS does NOT crash.
 >
 >My issue lies within the devfs, where a zombie device node remains,
 >which has to be deleted and then recreated, while in the other case it's
 >a straight kernel panic.
 >
 >But you might have deeper insights into the issue within...
 >  
 >
 I believe that the device node continues to exist until the dead mount 
 is forcibly unmounted..
 
 probably one for Poul-Henning  (CC'd )