Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> said:
> Dominik Kubla wrote:
> > First: There is something called vold (SUN haters please keep quiet)
> > for Linux too for management of removable media. No need to
> > patch the kernel as far as i know (i don't use this stuff).
> I like the Sun method... at least a lot better than supermount. :)
>
> CD insert -> automount
> CD eject -> command "eject cd"
OK. But AFAIR Sun just hangs when you insert an audio CD...
> Floppy insert -> 'volcheck' causes mount
And hangs hard (or screams at you) if it happens not to be formatted, or
part of a multivolume tarball, or a non-MSDOS diskette. At least some
versions of SunOS got wedged and the floppy drive became unusable until the
next reboot.
> Floppy eject -> command "eject floppy" (and mechanically eject if
> necessary)
Mechanically retaining the floppy is not there for PCs, sorry.
This idea sounds nice, but is _extremly_ hard to get to work right. How do
you format a diskette with this kind of setup? Do a rawrite? Create/use
multivolume tarballs? Handle different (perhaps even alien) filesystems,
esp. one that is handled by userlevel programs (something like mtools(1))?
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