Re: Re: Re: CD ROM and Floppy icons won't disappear

["Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" <famrom idecnet com>]

wege34 zonnet nl (2000-10-30 at 1828.00 +0100):
> > 1. patch the kernel floppy driver to flush the buffer after every
> > write operation. This would protect users from data corruption if
> > they eject without dismounting.
> Uummm, is not that what "sync" mount option does? Instead of async,
> the operations are made in sync mode. Correct me if I am wrong.
> <snip>
> ---------------------
> Yep, but the point was that 'mount'ing floppies confuses the hell
> out of those not used to it (I forget it too often myself and look at
> an empty /floppy directory, or the wrong contents). Making the
> floppy driver sync mode by default might cure that at no great loss.

If this is as simple as adding some letters to a file (sync option in
floppy line to /etc/fstab), then why patching?

GSR