Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 11:07:08 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Cc: Niklas Saers <berenmls@saers.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOSFS Message-ID: <199804060137.LAA08685@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "06 Apr 1998 03:21:06 %2B0200." <xzpk993wxrx.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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> > Perhaps MSDOSFS needs the 'soft' option a la NFS =) > There are just too many gotchas with PC floppy drives to make them > safe to mount, IMHO. They're cheap lowest-common-denominator¹ > hardware. You have no assurance that the user doesn't actually switch > floppies between mount and umount, because you have no way to lock the > media and disk change sense doesn't work reliably. Floppy operations Yeah.. <sigh> I know, but lets face it, if people want to mount them, then they should take responsibility for them screwing up.. _but_ they shouldn't have to worry about the kernel throwing a wobbly when you mount them.. (ie fail nicely instead of panicing..) > its use is so restricted that having to mount and umount it all the > time is a pain in the butt. Hopefully the LS120 brings a solution to > this; LS120 drives elctromechanical (rather than plain mechanical) True.. I suppose its just faster to do you work on a HD, and split it up into 1.44Mb chunks.. (but I'd still like it if the kernel didn't die on bad disks) > media ejection and allow media locking, and their capacity is such > that it actually makes sense to mount a disk for a certain period of > time. They are nice, and they aren't even that expensive.. I wonder how many people will get them standard.. > ¹ Yeah, I know it's supposed to be greatest common denominator... Hah.. This is PC hardware you realise?! =) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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