On 6/12/06, Ulrich Spoerlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Björn König wrote:
> I did a mistake: I unplugged my digital camera accidentally before I unmounted the > filesystem. *doh* This happens very often, because I'm very scatterbrained. =) The kernel > will panic and all filesystems remain unclean in any case now. I know that this is a well > know issue and in past discussions you stated that this behaviour is intended and won't be > changed ad hoc. I just want to know if somebody knows a workaround or small trick that > prevents the other filesystems from being unclean on next boot-up. You might give the automounter (am-utils) a whirl. They are very confusing to set up, but you can set the unmount-if-unused timeout to something like 5 seconds. This could narrow the window enough to not panic you system frequently :)
That's rather hackish ... especially since this is a common problem and a rather obvious hole in using FreeBSD for noobs. It seems that a better solution would be to allow filesystems to be mounted with a 'sync' flag. Or even an ULTRA-sync flag. Meaning strict sync semantics and even 'sync' running against the FS every few seconds. If a filesystem so-mounted completely disappears (or errors out), then it should just go "poof" as if it was umount -f'd. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
