Re: Why don't have bits the same rights as humans! (flushing to disk waiting time)

From: David Ford (david@blue-labs.org)
Date: Sun Aug 19 2001 - 17:16:13 EST


Mount your floppy synchronous. Writes won't be buffered then.

David

Otto Wyss wrote:

>I recently wrote some small files to the floppy disk and noticed almost nothing
>happened immediately but after a certain time the floppy actually started
>writing. So this action took more than 30 seconds instead just a few. This
>remembered me of the elevator problem in the kernel. To transfer this example
>into real live: A person who wants to take the elevator has to wait 8 hours
>before the elevator even starts. While probably everyone agrees this is
>ridiculous in real live astonishingly nobody complains about it in case of a disk.
>

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