On the handling of Floppy disks...

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:29:59AM -0500, Michael R Head wrote:

> First of all, is there any built-in way to improve the situation? Right
> now, the floppy is mounted 'sync', so things are committed to disk even
> if she takes the disk out before unmounting, but if attempts to write to
> the disk after the disk is removed, writes to the '/media/floppy' will
> succeed, even though they can't be committed to disk. 

Not only that, the 'sync' option doesn't actually work on vfat filesystems,
unless that has changed in very recent kernels.

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 - mdz