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 18:17:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:16:50 -0400 Received: from mail.erisksecurity.com ([208.179.59.234]:11356 "EHLO Tidal.eRiskSecurity.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:16:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3B803AAD.4030505@blue-labs.org> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:16:13 -0400 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010817 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: otto.wyss@bluewin.ch CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Why don't have bits the same rights as humans! (flushing to disk waiting time) In-Reply-To: <3B802B68.ADA545DB@bluewin.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. >