> In the original post, Giuliano said that he umounted the drive, so
> everything the system knew about the drive should have been thrown away
> then, surely ?
Exactly. Just as a umount forces writing of all buffers, it must
invalidate the buffers. I'm curious why noone noticed that earlier.
> This kind of situation could cause all kinds of nasty disk corruption in
> Windows 3.1, for example with Excel, when an application kept a file open on
> a diskette across a disk swap.
Well, they managed a fix for this later, at least I had trouble when I
formatted a disk with a still open file in another machine. Excel would
insist to get the old floppy back. But no data corruption occurred to me.
*sigh* a point where Windows 3.1 is better than Linux... :-)
Simon
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