Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/19/12:40:48
On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:
> > > > Your definition of "mount" seems to be faulty. To "mount" a
> > >
> > > My apologies, I looking for a term which hasn't been declared yet, how
> > > about we call it INTEND?
> >
> > Ok, sounds fair. I don't understand the logic behind it though.
> > You could just make the kernel smart enough to detect what
> > filesystem is on the disk in the drive, and automount it like it
> > allready does with FAT disks. Note, that automounting is only
> > possible for READ-ONLY disks (write protected) and/or disk drives
> > with write caching disabled. This is the case in DOS right now,
> > and will always be. The reason is that if the info hasn't been
> > written to disk yet, and you yank it, then the disk is toasted.
> > Sure, the kernel could print an error message saying "please put
> > that disk back in" but this would ONLY work if you complied, and
> > actually did it. A better solution is not caching removable
> > media.
> But, in case of mountable partitions/drives, this makes impossible caching of
> *any* drive except for the root FS! Better way would be to build into the
> mount utility some intelligent code that'd just flush *all* caches before
> unmounting the drive. In case of floppies you're on your own though. But I
> think that write cache for floppies is, err..., funny idea ;-)
No, one should have the CHOICE of mounting removeable media with
or without caching, and also fixed media. Neither would effect
the other.
> > Is someone keeping an OpenDOS wishlist together? I'm going to
> > make one based on my own wishes, and also those of everyone else
> > in here (an unbiased wishlist that is).
> Mail me with your ideas, we can talk about it.
Soon, I'll send it.
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