'cause if the machine state was frozen then the OS may still have some
unwritten data in memory making the disk image not upto date.
----Original Message Follows----
Hey! Why shouldn't people be able to edit their disk images??? :-(
I do it all the time when I use Windoze.... Quite fun to corrupt filenames,
ya
know... ;-P
Eric Laberge wrote:
> At 15:31 2000-12-15 +0100, you wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:14:08AM -0500, Drew Northup wrote:
> >
> > > How big are your disk image files? 640KB? Mine is 504MB!!! This IS
NOT A
> > > GOOD SOLUTION!!!
> >
> >Who fucking cares ? I have 40GB free disk space which cry to be filled ?
;-)
> >And my image is ~900MB.
>
> 900MB? How did you get around the 1024/16/63 504MB limit? :-P
>
> > > Remember two things: Keep It Simple Stupid (why many of my Data
Structures
> > > Programs just didn't work)
> > > and
> > > whatever is the fastest, the smallest (least memory used--of any
kind), and
> > > the simplest--all at once--is the best code.
> >
> >Well, I can think of nothing which will work in more cases. I guess
> >we can avoid copying the disk image if the user promises not to
> >touch it :-) OTOH, copying it would always work, no matter what
> >the user does. So this qualifies for me as "more simple".
>
> Can't we just save the file modification date, and only restore if it
> wasn't changed?
> Of course, the user could touch the file in which case it wouldn't work,
> but who is stupid enough to do that?
>
> EL
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