On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Ron Flory wrote:
>
> > .... Apparently, Windows can automount floppies in part because it
> > makes the assumption that there is only one user on the machine--an
> > assumption which Unices by design can't make.
>
> windoze does not 'mount' floppies. One may change disks between I/O
> operations without windoze even being aware of it. Of course your
> directory structure gets hopelessly clobbered in the process.
>
> Automounting in general is a very bad, sloppy, and dangerous practice,
> especially if the filesystem caches disk contents. Windoze does not
> cache removable media, thus its floppy throughput really sucks when
> compared to Linux.
>
> Having said that, the Amiga had a very nice automount mechanism, but
> even there it was possible to remove a floppy before it was completely
> synched.
>
> In my humble opinion its just not worth the risk, simply for the sake
> of 'dummy friendliness'.
Just a quick note... even the Macintosh floppy can be subverted. There is
a small hole where a paper clip can be inserted to force an ejection. That
can create an invalid data structure.
john alvord
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