RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of maurits@bassment.demon.nl
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 9:56 AM
> To: mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
>
>
> > 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.

That sounds like a fall back into stone age.

1) mtools do ONLY help to copy files. They don't help when you want an
application wants to access a file.

2) Nobody stops you to type "sync" before ejecting a floppy.

> 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.

1) Missed media changes: fix the bug instead of removing the feature,

2) Lock the eject mechanism.

>
> > 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. :-)

Please explain precisely what you think is broken.

> > 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.

What about removable drives where the filesystem type could be "anything"?
Like ISO, HFS or Audio on a CD-ROM?


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Julian F. Reschke (mailto:reschke@medicaldataservice.de)
MedicalData Service GmbH Münster, Germany