Messages in this thread | | | From | "Butter, Frank" <> | Subject | RE: Of removable devices | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:53:12 +0100 |
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-----Original Message----- From: Manfred Spraul [SMTP:manfreds@colorfullife.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 11:49 PM To: Francis GALIEGUE Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu; Khimenko Victor Subject: Re: Of removable devices
Francis GALIEGUE > > The big problem is that mounting/unmounting is not possible if the > mount point is currently being busy. > >As far as I know about both Win95 and WinNT, the OS doesn't unmount the >busy volume: it mounts a second volume for the same drive letter, and >wait until all handles to the now hidden volume get closed. After the >final close, the old volume is automatically destroyed.
>If you remove a volume, and access a drive letter without any volume >inserted, then the default filesystem will mount a pseudo "nothing" >volume.
this sounds very like it works on amiga systems: floppies are mounted with their given "name" and they stay mounted and "accessible" regardless they are ejected. e.g. a "cd" to a directory on the floppy would cause the system to bring up a message like "plz insert disk xxx:". in old days, without any harddisk, one usually worked as a diskjockey on the request of the system. at that time it was sometimes terrible but the only way, because even the main part of os was on one of the floppies. benefit: accidentally ejecting a floppy didn't necessarily destroy it unless you ignore the system messages.
frank
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