On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Jeremy MountainJohnson < jeremy.mountainjohnson at gmail.com> wrote: > I've also accidentally pulled a thumb > drive running Linux out before- usually panics in about 30 seconds, > and plugging it in quickly when remembering it's the system drive > doesn't help ;-) > I'm guessing the difference there lies in the fact that when you pull the thumbdrive, the USB subsystem removes the device node, which needless to say, messes things up. In the case of fibre channel, the device node is still there (the PCIe HBA), so the kernel still sees the device. It just thinks accessing the storage itself is *really* slow. :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130131/43539180/attachment.html>