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From: doug-merritt@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Fast File System for floppys ... how to.
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Date: 16 May 88 22:08:18 GMT
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Eric Green's point about FFS on hard disk is interesting...are you
supposed to "unmount" the drive or something before powering down?

As for FFS on diskettes, my latest thought is that you could have
an input handler watch for disk eject, and pop up a requestor demanding
that the diskette be put back so that dirty blocks could be written
out first. If there are any, that is. Once everything's been written,
or if it already had been, the input handler could arrange to have
a "diskchange" done automatically.

Wouldn't this make FFS safe?
   Doug
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