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Re: [MiNT] re Martin Eric racine, Guido Leavi
On 31 Mar 1999, Bernd Ebert wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:02:21 +0300 (EEST), Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
>
> > > > About the MinixFS problem: the latest version (pl9) work very well here.
> > > > I use it on my main partitions without any problem.
> >
> > Have you tried copying multiple files accross partitions or filesystems
> > such as, minix to minix, minix to vfat.... _That_ is where it chokes
> > the kernel's cache. Within one partition, no problem. _NOT_ accross.
>
> But AFAIK this is a problem that was already there in minix 0.6x (some long
> time ago (about two years) I posted a message concerning this.
Nope. I tried a similar operation using 0.60 and it doesn't lock the
drive between file write batches.
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