Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Remko Lodder wrote: >> Warner Losh wrote: >>> imp 2007-12-27 16:38:29 UTC >>> >>> FreeBSD src repository >>> >>> Modified files: sys/kern vfs_bio.c vfs_mount.c Log: A >>> partial solution to some of the 'pull the umass device with a >>> mounted FS' problems. These are more along the lines of >>> 'avoiding an avoidable panic' than a complete solution to >>> removable devices. We now close the barn door after the horse >>> has gotten lose and has been hit by a truck, as it were. The >>> barn no longer catches fire in this case, but the horse is still >>> dead :-). >>> >>> The vfs_bio.c fix causes us not to put a failed write back into >>> the dirty pool if the error returned was ENXIO. In that case, >>> the buffer is treated like any other clean buffer that's being >>> retured. ENXIO means the device isn't there anymore and will >>> never be there again in the future, so retrying is futile. >>> >>> The vfs_mount.c fix treats 'ENXIO' as success for unmounting a >>> file system. If the device is gone, retrying later won't help >>> and we'll never be able to unmount the device. >>> >>> These two are part of a larger patch set submitted by the author. >>> The other patches will be forth coming. I added comments to >>> these two patches. >>> >>> Submitted by: Henrik Gulbrandsen Reviewed by: phk@ PR: usb/46176 >>> (partial) >>> >>> Revision Changes Path 1.531 +4 -0 >>> src/sys/kern/vfs_bio.c 1.269 +7 -2 >>> src/sys/kern/vfs_mount.c >> Hurray! > > Can someone give me a quick overview of what a super page is (I assume > it is meant to improve paging performance) >
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