From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:36:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:36:12 -0400 Received: from unthought.net ([212.97.129.24]:2222 "HELO mail.unthought.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:35:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 00:36:12 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jakob_=D8stergaard?= To: David Ford Cc: otto.wyss@bluewin.ch, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Why don't have bits the same rights as humans! (flushing to disk waiting time) Message-ID: <20010820003612.A29624@unthought.net> Mail-Followup-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jakob_=D8stergaard?= , David Ford , otto.wyss@bluewin.ch, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <3B802B68.ADA545DB@bluewin.ch> <3B803AAD.4030505@blue-labs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3B803AAD.4030505@blue-labs.org>; from david@blue-labs.org on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 06:16:13PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 06:16:13PM -0400, David Ford wrote: > Mount your floppy synchronous. Writes won't be buffered then. Or use tar on /dev/fd0 Seriously - many people are not aware of that since they think of floppies like filesystems. But for many purposes tar is exactly what you want - and then there's no mounting and un-mounting, no buffered writes, and it may even work directly in your HP-UX box too :) If you absolutely must write to a FAT filesystem on the floppy, you can use the mtools package (mcopy, mdir, mformat, ...) - again, you won't have to mount or unmount, writes are not buffered, etc. etc. -- ................................................................ : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : :.........................: putrid forms of man : : Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: