Bug 130271 - Write access to vfat floppy in /media/floppy impossible
Summary: Write access to vfat floppy in /media/floppy impossible
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: 32bit SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Critical
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Assignee: Danny Kukawka
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Reported: 2005-10-24 14:31 UTC by Rainer Krienke
Modified: 2006-01-30 14:17 UTC (History)
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Description Rainer Krienke 2005-10-24 14:31:41 UTC 
When accessing /media/floppy (mounted as "/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,fs=floppyfss,procuid,sync)" write access is close to 
impossible. The drive is accessed but writing even small files takes an 
eternity.  
 
Probably this bug is related to 105871 where I found the solution. The trouble 
is the sync option for vfat filesystems. When I simply remove the sync-option 
in /etc/fstab for the /dev/fd0 mount entry like given above) 
umount /media/floppy and remount it, then it works.  
 
Rainer
Comment 2 Andreas Jaeger 2005-11-24 10:00:05 UTC 
Let's fix this with an update.

swamp id is: Maintenance-Tracker-3018
Comment 3 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-12-06 22:43:01 UTC 
submited new package to STABLE/factory and for a YOU update for 10.0
Comment 4 carlos tonussi 2005-12-14 14:15:36 UTC 
Sorry, but I did not understand how this bug was fixed or, at least, a paliative solution was given. I changed the fstab line for /dev/fd0 deleting the sync option. But this only enhanced the writing speed after remounting the device manually during that session. In a new session, the problem returned, despite the change in fstab. So, I can only write in acceptable speeds after remounting floppy manually in each session. In addition, as discussed in 105871, removing the sync option may cause loss of data during write process, is it right?
Comment 5 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-12-14 14:33:29 UTC 
As you can read from comment #2 and #3 there is a upcomming YOU update.
Comment 6 Anja Stock 2006-01-30 14:17:35 UTC 
released