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. :)
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