Alan Cox wrote:
> > Is there any possibility of making Linux handle file systems on
> > floppies like MSDOS, so that there is no need to explicitly mount and
> > unmount a floppy drive in order to access floppies through the file
> > system?
> There is a thing called 'supermount'. It needs more hands to port it to 2.3.x
> and it needs a very good review of the code to fix remaining questionable
> habits (or rewriting as a stackable fs). The stuff needed is out there however
Porting supermount from 2.0.x to 2.2.x was a cosource.com project,
undertaken by Alexis Milhailov. He also ported it to 2.3.x.
Unfortunately the web page where supermount is supposed to be located
doesn't resolve (http://supermount.cornpops.cx/)
I uploaded the latest I have, against 2.3.99-pre5, at
http://gtf.org/garzik/kernel/files/supermount-0.3.1-2.3.99-pre5.diff.gz
It definitely needs review, especially by the original SuperMount author
(sct?) Al Viro looked at one version of the patch and worried about
races.
Jeff
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