: > This problem belongs in userland. Someone needs to make a volume manager
: > like Slowaris has, so that users can take care of this problem.
: Actually, this is exactly what my "supermount" patches do (available
: for 2.0 on linux.dcs.ed.ac.uk in /pub/linux/supermount!). It provides
: truly transparent removable media support for both floppy and cdrom.
: There are a couple of problems with the current release. Only msdos
: and iso9660 filesystems are supported, and the door locking on 2.0
: kernels means that you can't change disks on cdroms for many drives
: which were OK on 1.2. The 0.5 releae of supermount is in progress and
: under testing, and will address these deficiencies.
My concept for changing data CDs is:
say "umount /CD"
watch the tray coming out
fetch the old CD
put down the new CD
say "mount /CD"
watch the tray slipping in
Realized, years ago. You even can let it do by a robot arm. Standard Linux.
Cheers -e
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