On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 11:51 -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > The problem with pushing this policy to the user is that software > applications have no means to determine that a device is currently > in-use. For instance, the net result of pulling a device on a mounted > filesystem is an eventual kernel panic. The kernel only panics if you told it to with the mount option errors=panic (or if you have errors=panic set in the superblock flags). For file systems on removable devices you shouldn't be telling it to panic on error, you should be telling it to continue or remount-ro. If you do this then you can happily yank the undelying device on a mounted fs, which was one of the design goals of the 2.6 SCSI state model and refcounting reworks. James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
