Re: Supermount

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Freitag, 22. Juli 2005 18:38 schrieb Lasse KÃrkkÃinen / Tronic:
> > Supermount is obsolete there are other tools in userspace that do the
> > job perfectly.
> > e.g ivman which uses hal and dbus.
> 
> They cannot mount on demand, thus cannot do the same job. The boot
> partition, for example, is something that should only be mounted when
> required. The same obviously also goes for network filesystems in many
> cases (i.e. avoid having zillion idling connections to the server).

To mount on demand use autofs. Unmounting and dealing with media removal
is the problem.

	Regards
		Oliver
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