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FreeBSD 13.0 released

FreeBSD 13.0 released

Posted Apr 14, 2021 15:14 UTC (Wed) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: FreeBSD 13.0 released by nix
Parent article: FreeBSD 13.0 released

Heh, I think you reminded me why I stopped using FreeBSD about 15 years ago!

At that time a guaranteed way to panic the system was to remove a USB drive while it was mounted. Just accidentally jiggling it was enough. The bug had been there for years, and their excuse was that the system was fundamentally designed with the assumption that drives won't disappear while in use, so just don't remove a mounted drive. It verged on a WONTFIX response. Ironic since FreeBSD boasted of getting USB support before Linux did.

Then Matt Dillon fixed it in Dragonfly BSD (which I used for a while).


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FreeBSD 13.0 released

Posted Apr 14, 2021 22:36 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Ha, and now we're all going through this rigmarole again with Thunderbolt/USB-C...


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