Stephen, On Thursday 20 January 2005 13:22, Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 23:46, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2005-01-18 at 17:23 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Well, a drive that can be hotplugged must be mounted sync, because the user may remove it anytime. That means the kernel can not buffer it and delay write operations... thus, it will be slow.
I thought we were talking about DVD-ROM drives? Such devices not written to, and hence the synchronous option imposes no performance penalty.
I mentioned automount being usefull for hot-plugable drives, like usb thing, and perhaps for floppy drives. Then Stephen mentioned a firewire HD, and that is R/W media also. So, yes, I think that automount probably is not a good idea for R/W media.
Also, what about dvd ram? Mmm, I don't know if it is available in linux yet.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
"Oh! my hero!" while fluttering eyelids in a masculine manner ;-)
There I am getting textually-thrashed by Serf Sour-Schulz, and my knight-in-shining-bits comes charging in brandishing a mighty keyboard (the keyboard having usurped the pens dominance over the sword some years ago ;-), and mortally wounds Randall's reasoning!
Sorry. It's late, I'm tired, and I tend towards verbal nonsense in this state.
No kidding...
Hey Patrick, is that far enough off-topic for you?
On DVD-RAM, do you mean DVD+/-RW? Isn't this what that whole Packet Writing SuSE forum is all about? AFAICT it's available, but tricky/unreliable, and not very fast at all. If you really mean RAM, then I'm not sure at all. --
No. DVD-RAM is a separate thing. It's a kind of DVD format that allows random access, read-write operation. It simulates a regular magnetic or flash-RAM type device. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-RAM for more information.
Steve Boddy
Randall Schulz