On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On 19-Jan-99 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Eric,
>
> You wrote:
> >
> > Don't ever mount a partition or hdimage under linux while at the same time
> > using
> > it with dosemu. For the partition case we have some checks to warn about
> > this.
> >
> I'm using DOSEmu for two-and-a-half year now and my DOS-partition is _ALWAYS_
> mounted. I have had no problems with that so far...
> However, I don't access the partition from within Linux while running DOSEmu.
> Is that the reason for my 'no problems'?
A semantic issue possibly - how do you access the partition under DOSEMU ?
Do use LREDIR (or EMUFS) ? This is safe as all the access goes via the
linux (V)FS layer. The problem is when RAW access is enabled under DOSEMU
& the partition is mounted under Linux. In this case neither of the
systems is aware of what the other is doing, and so corruption can occur.
Alistair
(Whilst this might have sprung out of the loopfs discussion, there is
nothing in that email to say which method was being used)
