From kde-core-devel  Thu Aug 24 09:05:34 2006
From: Hans Meine <hans_meine () gmx ! net>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:05:34 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Something for Solid ? Was: Application maintainerships
Message-Id: <200608241105.36070.hans_meine () gmx ! net>
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On Monday, 14. August 2006 18:20, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > Just as a side note, mtools was terrible in my experience.  It seems to
> > reaccess the floppy every time instead of using any kind of read caching
> > and it doesn't mix well with the ordinary mounting mechanism.
>
> Of course, mtools is uncached and independent of the normal file system.
> That is the whole concept of mtools and permits to work anywhere in many
> Unix-like OS where you can access a raw device.

Yes, and that's an advantage, too, since any user who can access a block 
device or image file(!) can access its contents.  That is *not* possible with 
the mount approach.

I.e. I recently backed up some dozens of floppy disks in order to free some 
space in my apartment (the reverse process of back then when I created the 
disks to free space on my HD.. ;-) ) and it would be cool if I could access 
their contents with e.g. "floppy:/home/hans/Disk-Images/nortoncommander.img" 
which would be possible with the mtools approach.

Ciao, /  /
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    /  / ANS