From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 5 18:37:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA18348 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:37:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA18320 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:37:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA08685; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:07:08 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199804060137.LAA08685@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) cc: Niklas Saers , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOSFS In-reply-to: Your message of "06 Apr 1998 03:21:06 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 11:07:08 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id SAA18325 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Perhaps MSDOSFS needs the 'soft' option a la NFS =) > There are just too many gotchas with PC floppy drives to make them > safe to mount, IMHO. They're cheap lowest-common-denominator¹ > hardware. You have no assurance that the user doesn't actually switch > floppies between mount and umount, because you have no way to lock the > media and disk change sense doesn't work reliably. Floppy operations Yeah.. I know, but lets face it, if people want to mount them, then they should take responsibility for them screwing up.. _but_ they shouldn't have to worry about the kernel throwing a wobbly when you mount them.. (ie fail nicely instead of panicing..) > its use is so restricted that having to mount and umount it all the > time is a pain in the butt. Hopefully the LS120 brings a solution to > this; LS120 drives elctromechanical (rather than plain mechanical) True.. I suppose its just faster to do you work on a HD, and split it up into 1.44Mb chunks.. (but I'd still like it if the kernel didn't die on bad disks) > media ejection and allow media locking, and their capacity is such > that it actually makes sense to mount a disk for a certain period of > time. They are nice, and they aren't even that expensive.. I wonder how many people will get them standard.. > ¹ Yeah, I know it's supposed to be greatest common denominator... Hah.. This is PC hardware you realise?! =) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message