Dear FreeBSD Community,
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce one of the projects from

the accepted project proposals!
The project is to make FreeBSD tolerate the removal of active disk

devices, such as when a USB flash device with a mounted filesystems is

physically detached by a user.  Currently the system may panic in this

situation. The work involves adding proper reference counting to

strategic portions of the kernel and modifying filesystems to properly

handle "device lost" errors.
Edward Tomasz Napierala is the developer working on this project.
"We are very excited to be able to fund this project, which we know is

of great interest to our users, especially in the desktop space," said

Robert Watson, president of The FreeBSD Foundation.
Robert also said, "The removable USB disk causing a crash turns out to

be our #1 reported bug."
"I am very happy to have the opportunity to work on this exciting

project," said Edward Tomasz Napierala, FreeBSD developer. "It's just

wrong when the system panics because you removed the pendrive!," he added.
The project will be completed by February 2009.
Sincerely,
The FreeBSD Foundation
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