On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Is there any possibility of making Linux handle file systems on
> floppies like MSDOS, so that there is no need to explicitly mount and
> unmount a floppy drive in order to access floppies through the file
> system?
RTFM. man automount.
> Because of the inconvenience of mounting and unmounting floppies, I
> never do that; I only use mcopy. mcopy is covenient enough, for
> people who don't mind learning another few commands. But that isn't
> very easy for non-hackers, the kind of people who now prefer Windows.
> A complaint from a non-hacker about this is what inspired me to write
> this message.
>
> We want to make GNU/Linux appeal to Windows users, and this is one of
> the things necessary to do that. And if MSDOS could do this, surely
> we can.
MSDOS did not provide memory-mapped files, so argument is bogus. Currently
the best approximation is automount. Keep in mind that MSDOS didn't
provide any caching, didn't have mmap() and even with all that it could be
b0rken badly by inserting/removing disks at wrong times.
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