Re: [hatari-devel] Floppy images cached?

[Thorsten Otto <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Montag, 30. Juni 2025 23:08:55 CEST Eero Tamminen wrote:

> There's no locking between TOS (or some Atari floppy manipulation

> program) running inside Hatari, and some external program user may run

> outside Hatari to also modify the floppy image FS content directly, or

> any co-operation in how they cache the FS contents.  And I do not see

> how there could...

Yes, but that also applies to HD-images.

I understand that floppies are different, because they can also have formats that cannot be easily accessed using seek/read/write, but it would be nice if atleast *.st format could be treated the same as HD images, and not cached in memory.