From: David Ford <david@blue-labs.org>
To: otto.wyss@bluewin.ch
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why don't have bits the same rights as humans! (flushing to disk waiting time)
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:16:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B803AAD.4030505@blue-labs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B802B68.ADA545DB@bluewin.ch>
Mount your floppy synchronous. Writes won't be buffered then.
David
Otto Wyss wrote:
>I recently wrote some small files to the floppy disk and noticed almost nothing
>happened immediately but after a certain time the floppy actually started
>writing. So this action took more than 30 seconds instead just a few. This
>remembered me of the elevator problem in the kernel. To transfer this example
>into real live: A person who wants to take the elevator has to wait 8 hours
>before the elevator even starts. While probably everyone agrees this is
>ridiculous in real live astonishingly nobody complains about it in case of a disk.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-19 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-19 21:11 Why don't have bits the same rights as humans! (flushing to disk waiting time) Otto Wyss
2001-08-19 21:24 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-08-19 22:16 ` David Ford [this message]
2001-08-19 22:36 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-08-19 22:42 ` Kip Macy
2001-08-20 11:35 ` Helge Hafting
2001-08-25 0:04 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-08-25 1:00 ` Daniel Phillips
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