Re: tlug: Floppy mounts

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Howard Abbey wrote:

> 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.  

and it then just ignores the mount/unmount stuff?

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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