[Gllug] linux and floppy disks

[Richard Clamp]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 06:50:17PM -0400, Ian Norton wrote:
> hmm intresting, the big gtk button hmm :-) hehe

Sounds useful, especially if you can unmount on closing the
filebrowser window, then you can just teach 'you have to close the
floppy before you can eject it, else your data will be eaten by a
grue'

> maybe doing away with floppies all together.. do internal iomega zips read
> floppies too? and do they detect media changes? (i imagine they do)

Nope.

> 0 caching would do what i want though wouldnt it? i mean speed is not much of
> an issue really with it, 

Probably not as you still have the problem of someone ejecting the
disk before it's umounted properly, confusing the disk and the kernel.
autofs gets around this partly by unmounting after inactivity, but you
can still eject too soon just by pressing the button.

PC floppies are a generally a bitch for this.  Mac and sun are so much
nicer since eject is software-triggered and the drives only have vestigial
eject holes you can ram a paperclip in for emergencies.

Why floppies anyhow?  Is it overkill to have a central NFS server
exporting /home/$kiddie with a 1Mb quota on each one.

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Richard Clamp <richardc at unixbeard.net>

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