On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 18:20 -0400, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:18:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > The question about PCI hotplug was very honest, since PCI hotplug > > refers to pulling PCI cards out of live systems, and that, to my > > understanding, has nothing to do with USB (which is hotplug by > > definition). > > I actually think the problem lies in ReiserFS: that's the module that > Panics when you yank the drive. The USB subsystem deals with the loss > of it just fine. The system doesn't actually freeze: you get a panic > from the ReiserFS module (which is builtin for me), about being unable > to write to the journal. Meanwhile all other apps continue to work just > fine -- you just cannot halt or reboot the system, it hangs the TTY > then, but you can change to another TTY and keep working. / and /boot are formatted ReiserFS? The warm feeling that I get from ext2 is why / & /boot are ext3 on my system. (/home is reiserfs, though.) > Since this is the status quo, and the system is still responsive after > this ReiserFS panic, is it still possible to cleanly shutdown and reboot > the system in case I accidentally do it? Right now I have to cold kill > the system without a shutdown, which tends to cause further data > corruption on my ReiserFS HD parts. So a "shutdown -t1 -now -r" on another console TTY just sits there? A "cold kill" (aka "hitting the BRS", to us oldsters) should not damage ReiserFS partitions. That's what journaling is for, after all. What kernel are you running? > Do me a favor and if you think it's a dumb question just don't answer > instead of telling me it's a dumb or poorly asked question. Thanks. You must be thinking of someone else. I went back and checked all of my responses on this thread and nowhere does it mention "dumb" or "poorly asked". It doesn't even infer them, IMO. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B "It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich." Alan Alda
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