Re: Floppy handling

From: Richard Stallman (rms@gnu.org)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 20:44:10 EST


     Hmm, isn't a fs mounted with "-o sync" plus an automounter (autofs, for
    example) unmounting a floppy after a short (such as a few seconds) timeout
    sufficient? This way you have both the floppy cached and coherent.

This might work. Can it unmount the floppy even if you have cd'd to
it?
                                                                        
    Actually removing an ext2 floppy before unmounting would need a later fsck
    (due to a stale "dirty" flag in the superblock) but the filesystem would
    be otherwise consistent anytime the light is off.

I think that an fsck on remount is no disaster; as long as it manages
to happen infrequently, it will be only a small pain.

Would you like to try this out, to determine exactly what to try
and see if it really works well?

Where is the place to suggest this to the makers of GNU/Linux
distributions?

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