Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3901 mails)

[Stephen Boddy <stephen.boddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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.
-- 
Steve Boddy