Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > One solution is (as mentioned) a userland filesystem that doesn't panic. > automount approximates this if you set the disconnect interval short (< 5 > seconds).
Unfortunately the approximation is far from perfect because it takes noticable time to mount a msdosfs on large drives (I think the FAT is being read?). > The other way to look at this, though, is the general goal of "not > panicing" > when it can be avoided. As a research OS, it's my feeling that BSD derived > unixes have followed the "if in doubt, panic" regime. I don't think > this is > appropriate to a modern desktop or server OS. Agreed very much, though some of the older hackers here seem to like the old approach.
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