[TriLUG] Floppy Lag

[Paul D. Boyle]

Marty wrote:
> It's how the file system on Linux works. 

> Linux doesn't sense much urgency to synching the disk.  If this bugs you,
> then use the synch option in /etc/fstab for your floppy drive,
> and Linux will emulate windows behavior.

Or, you can do something like this (assuming your floppy is mounted on
'/mnt/floppy'):

cp <file> /mnt/floppy;  sync

The 'sync' command forces changed blocks to be written to disk.  Although,
I have to agree that a 30-45 sec lag time for a deferred write is
unacceptable, and should be changed.

Paul

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