Re: Accessing device information in REMOVE agent

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 01:06:13PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> 
> I'd like to (try to) replace current synchronous media change checks in 
> supermount by mounting device on insert and releasing it on remove. For those 
> cases when it makes sense of course, USB sticks in the first place.
> 
> But users are free to use any names or links for their device names i.e. they 
> can do
> 
> ln -s sda /de/myflash
> mount /dev/myflash
> 
> and on remove it is rather hard to match this name against DEVPATH. But I can 
> save (major,minor) when mounting and use it to match mounted filesystem on 
> remove.

You might want to look into what devlabel does, as it sounds like it
does much the same thing of what you are wanting to do.

Good luck,

greg k-h
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