RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

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

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 11:35 AM
> To: kellis
> Cc: Martin-Eric Racine; MiNT List
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
>
>
> > Even if it was broken, is it worth it to change the entire concept??
> > Wouldn't it be better to fix the prob you are seeing? (broken)
>
> We are talking about two separate things here, so I'll answer them
> separately:
>
> 1) ability to mount a drive at a specific point.
>    Still needed; was partially possible using minix 0.60,
>    but currently gone; we have to symlink everything, which
>    has its dangers (see Andreas' post).
>
> 2) broken media change on floppy, especially using VFAT.
>    This obviously has to be investigated.
>
> > Using the typical mount way of unixes to mint to me a mistake.
>
> If you mean as in: mount blah.... then yes, a bit tedious.
>
> However, the ability to mount specific drives at specific
> points, instead of brainlessly auto-mounting all drives at
> root is definitely needed.

Actually it is guaranteed that all available filesystems are visible on U:.
Changing this will break existing code.

> > > But why should we have to force media-change detection, while
> > > other OS apparently handle it smoothly and transparently?
> > Now I don't know who's maintaining all the commercial unix box you are
> > using, coz they must be god. TRansparently, never crash, all
> works smooth
> > etc. yeah right.
>
> Instead of BASHing on other Unices, answer the topic of the discussion,
> which was that Bash on Linux handles floppy changes fine, while the one
> on MiNT (presumably because of a bug in the NEWFATFS) buggers and exits.

The shell doesn't handle media changes it all. It's the filesystem with the
help of the BIOS. If it doesn't work, something is broken -- either your
floppy, the BIOS or the filesystem. You need to find out what's wrong, and
then repair it. But you don't need another concept.