Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

[maurits@bassment.demon.nl]

> I for one wouldn't wanna trade the way we mount our fs in /
> mount in linux is just a pain.
> Wanna use a floppy, cdrom whatever, blah crap, even with automount.
> Makes it quite complicated for nothing,

Nothing except for the fact that it tells the os when a removable is
there, gone or changed, and apart from that Linux has a cache for
ext2-floppies like it should have for any ext2-filesystem, and which
requires (un)mounting because of the cache flush. If you want to work
with dos/tos-floppies, you should use mtools and you won't have to mount
anything, works just like a dos drive.

In MiNT, we currently have the problem that mediachanges are often
missed, and that having a wb-cache on a removable drive is plain
dangerous.

> No need
> to put extra hassle just to confirm to some standard which is more than
> likely to change anyway.

Heh heh yeah right. Soon all unices will get rid of mounts and follow
MiNT's current screwed way of dealing with removables. :-)

> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -blahwhatever 
> brrrrr.

That's stupid. A device that's mounted so often with the same options
should be put in the fstab so all you have to do is

mount /mnt/floppy

Is that so hard? I know you enjoy slacking Linux, but maybe you should
dig a bit further in it's possibilities and also check what behaviour is
standard in most other unices before you do.

Maurits.