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Author: Colin Percival
Date: 04-01-02 13:29
Wouldn't it be enough in this case just to mount the disk noatime? Floppy drives are so slow to begin with that I personally wouldn't want to have access times recorded even if the disk was writeable.
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Author: Dan Langille
Date: 04-01-02 20:09
Now there's an option I didn't know which existed. Good point.
Yes, you could mount it noatime. But that almost amounts to the same thing as readonly.
AFAIK, moves are under way in the fd driver to notice that a write-protected floppy has been inserted, and to automagically mount it read-only.
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Author: Servent of "I AM"
Date: 08-01-02 18:54
Why are we using floppies? Cost per kilobyte would suggest CD has replaced the floppy. I am sad to see it go, as it was nice to dump data and run but CDs w/ burncd being free and fast, go for that.
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Author: Dan Langille
Date: 10-01-02 02:07
Servent of "I AM" wrote:
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> Why are we using floppies?
Because they are small, cheap, and reliable.
> Cost per kilobyte would
> suggest CD has replaced the floppy. I am sad to see it go,
> as it was nice to dump data and run but CDs w/ burncd being
> free and fast, go for that.
A CD was not a option.
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Author: Dan Langille
Date: 14-01-02 01:27
I take your point. But reliable is a relative term. We rely on boot floppies when we install. That's sufficient reliabilty for the situation. And for what I needed to do in these circumstances.
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Author: shanson
Date: 03-02-02 20:00
Why use flopiies? We use write-protected floppies to keep our AIDE database on critical machines. If we get rooted, the bad-guy can't change the AIDE db unless he is physically present to slide the write-protect tab on the floppy. An alarm gets set off if either AIDE finds an error or if AIDE is not run at least once an hour
Which also means that anytime I make a change on one of these machines, I have to remember to umount the diskette, slide the tab, remount it rw, remake the AIDE db, unmount, reslide, remount ro. In any round of security patches I generally set off at least one alarm inadvertantly.
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