Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> said:
> Horst von Brand wrote:
[...]
> > > 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.
> I never had a hang, maybe you should apply patches. :)
Not recently. First order of bussiness when setting up Solaris is to get
rid of vold, and install mtools. After gcc and bash, obviously ;-)
> One expects an unformatted disk or unrecognizable format to fail in some
> way.
It used to fail horribly, until I got fed up. Nowadays I indulge in Linux
on my SPARC.
> > > Floppy eject -> command "eject floppy" (and mechanically eject if
> > > necessary)
> > Mechanically retaining the floppy is not there for PCs, sorry.
> ya think?
Not on any PC I have ever seen.
> > 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))?
> if mounted by vold: use as mounted fs
> if not mounted: use device directly, 'fdformat /dev/fd0' etc.
Pop in a floppy that you want to format. Oops, was formated with MSDOS, no
way to _not_ mount it to get to point (b).
> How difficult is that?
ESP required, minimum. The opcode RUM (Read User's Mind) hasn't been
implemented, AFAIK.
> vold, volcheck and other Solaris tools are really minimal extensions to
> automount. No big deal or rocket science, and not hard to get right.
> The toughest thing is training the users...
That is the part that should _not_ be required at all. Going half the way
here is worse than not even starting down that road, IMVHO.
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