Re: Ideas for v2.1
Christopher J. Shaulis (cjs@netcom.com)
Wed, 12 Jun 1996 20:16:37 -0400 (EDT)
> On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, DUPRE Christophe wrote:
>
> > > Also, I'd like to see the tray locking on CDROMS be a little less
> > > strict. If there are no open files on a mounted CD, and no process
> > > has the CD for a current directory, I'd like to be able to open
> > > the CD tray (without a screwdriver :), put in a new disk, and
> > > have it be available when I close the tray.
> >
> > Even if the CD is mounted ?
>
> This problem belongs in userland. Someone needs to make a volume manager
> like Slowaris has, so that users can take care of this problem.
>
> Even now, there is a solution... Just add the 'user' option for your
> CD-ROM drive, and all users will be able to mount/umount it. Make a shell
> script called eject that simply does a 'umount /mnt/cdrom' (or whatever).
Sounds like a job for sct's supermount program! I believe that it does
all that you ask.
Christopher