Something for Solid ? Was: Application maintainerships

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Monday 14 August 2006 08:51, Clarence Dang wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 02:28, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 August 2006 17:56, you wrote:
> > If mtools are really still required, I'll have a look at the
> > floppy-ioslave again.
> >
> > > Also as far as I know, it is not limited to floppies, but to anything
> > > that mtools can handle. However I do not know if USB-sticks are
> > > supported.
> >
> > Or is this really a task for Solid ? Kevin ?
>
> Just as a side note, mtools was terrible in my experience.  It seems to
> reaccess the floppy every time instead of using any kind of read caching
> and it doesn't mix well with the ordinary mounting mechanism.

Of course, mtools is uncached and independent of the normal file system. 
That is the whole concept of mtools and permits to work anywhere in many 
Unix-like OS where you can access a raw device.

(That is also why floppy: is a remote KIO slave.)

Have a nice day!