Re: Removable media bug

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:48:07 -0400

In message <435C366F075ED211B12200204840172D703E23@PETITSUIX>, BROWN Nick write
s:
+-----
| The saving to be made by trying to cache the data across a umount of a
| floppy, seems trivial compared to the risk involved. The vast majority of
| the time, the next floppy will be different. (I can see the logic when hard
| disk partitions are involved.)
+--->8

Scenario:

mount -t msdos /dev/hdb2 /mnt/dos
(copies, etc.)
umount /mnt/dos
"oops, I forgot something"
mcopy somefile.dat d:

Are the buffers going to be correct after this? (Probably they should, since
the buffers are keyed by device....) If not, then flushing the buffers on
umount is a good idea.

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