Now that you mention this, I agree with you.
> I'd just also like to mention that a BSD clone I was using for the Power
> Mac a while back had this. It was called 'mountd' and was run as a
> daemon process. (Obviously) In addition to CD-ROMs, it handled all
> 'ejectable' mediums (which, on the Mac, included all the floppy drives)
> and worked with the fstab (I think) Don't know if it can be handled this
> way in Linux, I'm not an expert in this functionality nor do I have the
> time to check, unfortunately. But, maybe... just maybe, in the long run
> it would be good to have this sort of thing be doable, somehow, for the
> non-UNIX savvy that may grace our humble OS.
Yeah, this should also happen in some way for floppies...or at least it
would be really nice to have for floppies..., and any other removable
media..
>
> Joe Pranevich, who is up far too late
>
Isaac who is also up far too late
> > iconnor@uwaterloo.ca
>