Re: BFFS Icons

[Job Hanssen <hanssen%dds.nl@localhost>]

Quoting Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 02:11:52AM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> > Ignatios Souvatzis skrev:
> > 
> > >The reason it can't set the clean flag is that there seems to be no way
> to
> > >fully unmount a file system in AmigaOS... you "just boot" anytime the
> disk
> > >isn't active.
> > 
> > "C:Assign DISMOUNT Device:" has always worked fine for me. At least it
> gets
> > rid of the icon. =)
> 
> yes, but I think the filesystem itself doesn't notice enough to do a
> dismount.
> Maybe I'm wrong, I never researched this myself.

No, you're not. AmigaOS simply doesn't know how to unmount a filesystem. The 
DISMOUNT flag from C:Assign, only tells AmigaOS to 'not care' about the device 
any more. This is one of the basic flaws in the AmigaOS...

Regards,

   Job Hanssen