Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!doug-merritt From: doug-merritt@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Fast File System for floppys ... how to. Message-ID: <5256@cup.portal.com> Date: 9 May 88 20:47:18 GMT References: <30793@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <5888@well.UUCP> <861@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 30 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.4407 Randall & Leo's comments about the danger of FFS on floppies are well taken. Given that some people will be interested anyway (hey, they ARE pretty slow!), then what conclusion do we reach? How about a little hotkey input handler that you bring up when you want to pop a FFS diskette, that flushes buffers and tells you when it's safe? Yes, this may still be risky. However, this would be handy even with SFS (slow file system) diskettes...I get nervous sometimes about popping them out; I'd love to have something that I could use to guarantee no disk access will happen when I want to grab one. Especially if it had an emergency option to forcibly stop all disk i/o (and shut off the red light)...I get nervous about rebooting during brain damaged disk acesses. You know, a program crashes, all goes nuts, but the little red light is still on...If you reboot at this point (and since it may never go off, you may have to), and a disk read or write is happening, mightn't the reboot cause a problem? Or am I confused? Even if I'm all wet about that, the input handler seems like a must for those who *do* decide to use FFS with diskettes. Doug Merritt ucbvax!sun.com!cup.portal.com!doug-merritt or ucbvax!eris!doug (doug@eris.berkeley.edu) or ucbvax!unisoft!certes!doug