[TriLUG] Floppy Lag

[Marty Ferguson]

Jason,

It's how the file system on Linux works.  Everything is cached, and,
when Linux "gets around to it" the physical media will actually be written
to.  But considering how tiny a floppy is by comparison to the
(run xosview and look at the graph) enormous amount of cache availabe,
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.

Marty

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
Behalf Of Jason S. Evans
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:40 AM
To: TriLUG
Subject: [TriLUG] Floppy Lag


When I save data to a floppy, my pc says that it is instantly done,
but the drive doesn't actually start writing to the floppy until 30 to
45 seconds after I save.  Is this normal or some strange quirk with
the 2.6 kernel?  I am running Debian Sarge.

Jason


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