On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> MSDOS did not provide memory-mapped files, so argument is bogus. Currently
> the best approximation is automount. Keep in mind that MSDOS didn't
> provide any caching, didn't have mmap() and even with all that it could be
> b0rken badly by inserting/removing disks at wrong times.
I have seen DOS overwrite the FAT on a floppy because it was running
COMMAND.COM off of that drive and the disks were switched out from under
it... I sure hope we never dumb Linux down that much. ;-)
-Jacob
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