Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: add to the kernel TODO | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 1999 17:20:14 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> |
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> > > The other thing is "what happens when the eject isn't a request?" as > > > with old floppy drives. If you wanted to get clever you could "detect > > > disk change" and force unmount the device (possibly killing processes) > > > with a kernel message about lost data. > > > > Why not simply modify the floppy driver to keep the floppy motor > > on while the disk is mounted? People are `trained' not to eject > > the disk while the light is on.... > Because I keep my Tripwire diskette in the drive... And it's the only diskette > that ever gets there... I remove it *really* infrequently. And leaving the > motor running for such a long period of time surely isn't healthy,
A better solution is to keep the motor on as long as there are outstanding read/write requests, then stop it. Ejecting such a floppy shouldn't damage the filesystem, although it might annoy applications.
Helge Hafting
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