> >unlike floppies, real disks are often used in a much more random-access
> >way, with multiple open files etc, and they are much better at taking
> >advantage of large writes. Floppy accesses tend to be "save this file as
> >a backup or for moving to another machine". Very different.)
>
> And when you say "ah, I wrote the wrong vmlinuz file, so just overwrite it
> with the right one" and you have to wait the double of time before being
> able to extract the floppy. That's ugly IMHO.
Not if you can make writes in small chunks. It doesn't make much difference if
you write to a floppy in 100K or in 1000K chunks. If chunks are small only a
few of them have to be overwritten. (I don't know how linux actually work...
it's just and idea).
Bye.
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