Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/15/15:33:24
On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, yeep wrote:
> > Also, you say that in Linux(or other) that it is ready when the
> > process ends, however this is not true.
>
> I know, my point is, that we make it true!
In DOS? Or Linux? That wont work in Linux because you can
background a process. It would be pointless to even try it in a
multitasking OS like Linux. Better to just not cache floppies.
> > I just copied stuff to
> > my currently mounted floppy. I watched "cp" with "top" until the
> > process was finished. I got my prompt back and removed the disk.
> > That disk now needs to be reformatted because the cache is NOT
> > sync'd before the prompt returns. Even if the cache was sync'd
> > before the prompt returns in BASH, it won't help me if I'm using
> > Midnight commander or something else to copy to the disk. Since
> > caching a floppy is TOTALLY USELESS to me on my system, and just
> > causes lost disks, I wish I could do away completely with it. I
> > hope that OpenDOS will also allow this option too.
>
> OpenDOS uses nwcache, right?
> So I think it works the same as in SMARTDRV.
> You can turn off the foppy caching.
> We should only make it the default value, in stead of like in SMARTDRV,
> where the default is floppy cache on.
Yeah, I've got that disabled in DOS right now, but how does one
do that in linux? The mount manpage was less than informative.
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