Richard Stallman wrote:
> The ability to handle removal of the floppy even when it is mounted
> and "in use" will be important for non-hackers, so I think it is worth
> some amount of effort.
It is indeed, but it doesn't belong in the kernel.
> Supermount seems to come closer to what I had in mind, and maybe could
> do the job. But some people say it is not reliable. If it is made
> reliable and gets included as a standard part of Linux, maybe it will
> do the job.
It ships standard with Mandrake since 6.1 and hasn't stuffed up yet for
me.
> But I wonder what happens if you remove the floppy while some file is
> open on it. The program which has the open descriptor will have to
> lose, but the system as a whole should not stumble. What will
> supermount do in this case.
Return a media error, I think; certainly return some kind of error. It
would be nice if you could continue to read at least as far as the end
of the cache, but in 99% of cases it doesn't matter, and in the
remaining 1% you've probably lost out anyway, and can almost certainly
stick the medium back into the drive and re-auto-mount it. I've never
tried it.
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