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> Yes, this all can be changed. You will need "just" rewrite half of VFS
> layer to do it. Current VFS implementation does not allow sane
> supermount. Yes, you can cook up something (it was even done). It'll work
> sometimes. But it'll ruin floppies from time to time. MS DOS doing it,
> Windows doing it (there are no easy way to check if filesystem is clean
> and you can eject floppy safely -- I'v e ruined my floppies pretty often
> on old days when I've used them) but WHY THE HELL Linux should do this is
> well ?
As long as it runs on shitty hardware that encourages anybody to just take
out a floppy while it is being written to, there is no solution.
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