Messages in this thread |  | | From | Nick LeRoy <> | Subject | Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10 | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:30:17 -0500 |
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On Thursday 18 October 2001 11:17, Ville Herva wrote:
(snip) > That's propably beacause it syncs the writes on close(). > > Perhaps you could try the trick Linus suggested in another thread, namely: > > sleep 1000 < /dev/fd0 & > > mdir > mcopy > mdir > mcopy > <do whatever> > > kill %1 > > That keeps one (dummy) reference to the floppy device open until you're > done using it.
Perhaps there should be a pair of "mtools" added: mopen and mclose, that do basically this. That way it could be a "standard" item, documented in man pages, etc., not some secret that only the l-k users know. Thoughts?
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