Re: tlug: Floppy mounts

[Howard Abbey <habbey@example.com>]

Scott Stone wrote:
> How does DOS handle this?  I'm assuming that the answer is 'poorly', but
> it does seem to handle floppies somewhat better than Linux 

It doesn't do floppy disk caching, so if the light is off, the disk is
safe.
It sounds like the sync option of mount does the same thing, so it
should
be equivalent.  

-- 
Howard
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