To make floppy access right (joe-user wise) under linux, we need to:
- treat it as a special case:
- start writing to floppy as soon as possible (not waiting for update to
flush dirty buffers)
- each time the floppy light is off (i.e. we just finished a write op)
leave the filesystem in a "now unmountable" state, i.e. forcefully
ejecting it would cause no harm (neither on-disk nor in the kernel), but
reading it would still use previously cached data.
unfortunately, this doesn't seem possible with the current architecture.
Xav
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