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- From: Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: Rwabs -36 problems
- Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 10:18:13 +0200
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-
- Hello,
-
- Kay writes:
-
- |>Another temporary solution is to comment out the line
- |>
- |>if (Addroottimeout) Addroottimeout (...)
- |>
- |>so that Minixfs used the old update daemon method for
- |>updating the harddisk. because the update daemon has
- |>euid 0 there are no problems with access restrictions.
- |>
- |>But this should be no long term solution for obvious
- |>reasons...
- |>
- Why not? I still think that an update daemon which does ALL updates in
- the system is the best solution. It could call all filesystems on u:\
- with a special fcntl opcode which then does the update. Eric, why dont
- you reserve such an opcode and spawn a process at start up time of mint
- much like it is done in the minixfs? The each filesystem has to decide
- whether it needs syncing or not. Or even better: have a system call
- Sync, which does this, as it can access more information about the
- file systems and bios devices, which also might want to sync something.
-
- Regards,
- Ulrich
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