Re: Floppy handling

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 9 Jun 2000 14:21:07 +0100 (BST)


> Is there any possibility of making Linux handle file systems on
> floppies like MSDOS, so that there is no need to explicitly mount and
> unmount a floppy drive in order to access floppies through the file
> system?

There is a thing called 'supermount'. It needs more hands to port it to 2.3.x
and it needs a very good review of the code to fix remaining questionable
habits (or rewriting as a stackable fs). The stuff needed is out there however

Alan

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