[UCLA-LUG] HEEELLLPPPP

[dannys@csua.ucla.edu]

"Todd A. Lyons" <cannonball@usinter.net>
>dannys@csua.ucla.edu wrote:
>> For DOS based floppies, ues mtools.  The commands mcopy, mdel, mdir,
>> etc... are the equivalent to the DOS commands copy, del, dir, etc.
>Very impressive.  I have to ask the question, is there a reason why this
>functionality could not be written into a script or executable for any
>file system?

Mostly because this requires the basic tools to have knowledge of the
filesystem layout.  mtools has to do all the work of understanding the
DOS filesystem.  So it's a lot of duplication of effort.

The best approach would be to have a way of mounting a filesystem so
that it doesn't make use of the kernel's write cache.  Then it'd be a
trivial matter of doing an automatic mount/umount when accessing the
disk.