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- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 14:09:03 +0100
- To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
- From: hessdorf@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de (Joerg Hessdoerfer)
- Subject: Re: Update-daemon for all FSes
-
- >consider yourself being greeted ;-)
- >
- I humbly greet you!
-
- > Point is that minixfs update knows which drives to do. If you don't and
- >call Dcntl() on any drive existing, you'll end up starting the floppy each
- >time probably. That`s where I ended up when making an external `sync'
- >program for minixfs, and will probably disturb you, as it disturbed me,
- >I can tell you...
-
- But, heck, why do an external sync that way? I mean, I did it by sending
- minix fs's update demon an ALERT signal... that worked pretty well for me.
- I actually posted the five lines of code here, I think.
-
- On the other hand, a global update process would be nice, once that more
- advanced fs like minix fs are around. Maybe there should be a list, in which
- each filesystem could enter the drives on which a dcntl for updating makes
- sense. Some cookie maybe?!?
-
- >
- > So you might consider an option to map out some drives which are likely
- >not to be minix ones. Or something like this.
- >
- > Better: Make minixfs use the cache mode in a `per drive' way and assume
- >that floppies won't use the TURBO mode. You might think of other reasons
- >why this might be a good idea... Stephen??????? :-)
- >
- >so long,
- >TeSche
- >--
- >PS: If the above written looks weird, then that's probably because it _IS_.
- >Torsten Scherer (Schiller, TeSche...), University of Bielefeld, Germany
- >==> itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de / tesche@hrz.uni-bielefeld.de <==
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > 'If you have enjoyed the experience of this drink,' continued the machine,
- >'why not share it with your friends?'
- > 'Because,' said Arthur tartly, 'I want to keep them.'
- C'ya, Joe
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