Josh Paetzel wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Momchil Ivanov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #11: Sat Jul 14 16:27:12 CEST 2007
>> and accidently unplugged the USB hub to which my external hdd
>> together with a mouse were connected and this caused my machine to
>> freeze for some seconds and then reboot. At that moment the hdd was
>> mounted and I was playing music out of it.
>> After that I tried to reproduce it :) so just plugged only the hdd
>> directly, mounted it and started playing music files from it. When
>> I unplugged the USB cable the same thing happened: short freeze,
>> and then reboot. Is this expected behaviour? And is there some way
>> to avoid the freeze and reboot?
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> Yes, it's expected behavior.  The workaround is to not unplug mounted 
> devices. (There's nothing special about USB here, if you unplugged an 
> IDE drive you'd get the same behavior)
> 

Wouldn't it make some sense not to panic if mounted devices that are in sync
get removed? A few applications might get in trouble, but that's hardly a
reason to bring a whole system down.
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