From: Nick LeRoy <nleroy@cs.wisc.edu>
To: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>, Kamil Iskra <kamil@science.uva.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:30:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110181632.f9IGW9i29729@schroeder.cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011018092837.C1144@turbolinux.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110181734270.7583-100000@krakow.science.uva.nl> <20011018191732.B1262@niksula.cs.hut.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20011018191732.B1262@niksula.cs.hut.fi>
On Thursday 18 October 2001 11:17, Ville Herva wrote:
(snip)
> That's propably beacause it syncs the writes on close().
>
> Perhaps you could try the trick Linus suggested in another thread, namely:
>
> sleep 1000 < /dev/fd0 &
>
> mdir
> mcopy
> mdir
> mcopy
> <do whatever>
>
> kill %1
>
> That keeps one (dummy) reference to the floppy device open until you're
> done using it.
Perhaps there should be a pair of "mtools" added: mopen and mclose, that do
basically this. That way it could be a "standard" item, documented in man
pages, etc., not some secret that only the l-k users know. Thoughts?
-Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-18 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-17 7:36 Kamil Iskra
2001-10-17 20:45 ` Steve Kieu
2001-10-18 10:11 ` Kamil Iskra
2001-10-18 15:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-18 15:42 ` Kamil Iskra
2001-10-18 16:17 ` Ville Herva
2001-10-18 16:30 ` Nick LeRoy [this message]
2001-10-18 19:57 ` bill davidsen
2001-10-18 20:47 ` Nick LeRoy
2001-10-18 20:05 ` bill davidsen
2001-10-18 20:15 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-18 16:18 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-18 17:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-19 7:50 ` Giuliano Pochini
2001-10-19 13:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-19 15:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-20 4:20 ` Rob Landley
2001-10-19 16:58 Manfred Spraul
2001-10-21 11:36 Alain Knaff
2001-10-22 9:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-22 10:06 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-22 14:07 ` Nick LeRoy
2001-10-22 18:28 ` bill davidsen
2001-10-27 15:00 Alain Knaff
2001-10-27 15:15 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 17:12 ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-27 17:42 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 18:00 ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-27 18:13 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 18:26 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-06 7:01 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-06 7:03 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-06 7:19 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-06 7:22 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 19:13 ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-27 19:19 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 19:26 ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-28 20:40 ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-28 20:57 ` Peter T. Breuer
2001-10-29 5:38 ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-29 6:07 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-29 6:34 ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-28 21:42 ` Alexander Viro
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