Re: Floppy handling

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 09:21:07 EDT

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    > 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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