Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:36:36 +0200 (CEST) | From | Simon Richter <> | Subject | RE: Removable media bug |
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On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, BROWN Nick wrote:
> In the original post, Giuliano said that he umounted the drive, so > everything the system knew about the drive should have been thrown away > then, surely ?
Exactly. Just as a umount forces writing of all buffers, it must invalidate the buffers. I'm curious why noone noticed that earlier.
> This kind of situation could cause all kinds of nasty disk corruption in > Windows 3.1, for example with Excel, when an application kept a file open on > a diskette across a disk swap.
Well, they managed a fix for this later, at least I had trouble when I formatted a disk with a still open file in another machine. Excel would insist to get the old floppy back. But no data corruption occurred to me.
*sigh* a point where Windows 3.1 is better than Linux... :-)
Simon
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