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Re: cgd questions



wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost (Thomas Klausner) writes:

>Follow up question because it just happened to me:

>I have a USB Disk with ffs-on-cgd.  I unmounted the ffs but forgot
>unconfiguring the cgd before unplugging the disk.

>Can this cause problems? What kinds?

Shouldn't do any harm, there is no state on the disk but the data
itself and FFS has already flushed everything and waited for completion.

The cgd device probably doesn't detach immediately and an attempt
to use it may crash the system. But unconfiguring it immediately
after should be safe.



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