In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.96.1000223120150.23465w-100000@angusbay.vnl.com>,
Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com> wrote:
>It is a basic fact of life in a high performance
>file system that data is not written when you
>write to the file, it is written when something
>occurs to flush it to the media.
This is sort of pointless when you're talking about floppies -- in
most cases, floppies are simply low-capacity random-access tape
drives, and the user would prefer that the OS writes the data to the
disk *right now* instead of waiting around for it to schedule it.
My hat is off to the people who actually run Linux from a floppy
disk (I've done it, back when kernels were small enough to actually
fit an installer on a uncompressed floppy filesystem. I'm sure it
was faster to buffer writes, but it was still r-e-a-l-l-y slow.)
but I don't think they're anywhere close to the majority.
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david parsons \bi/ Magicfilter is pretty q00l, but I wish it would
\/ unlock the door of the %^$#!@@ cd-rom occasionally.
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