Re: automount/volume management

Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.com)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:37:23 -0700

lm@bitmover.com said:
> Solaris's volume management is really, really annoying to many people.
> It made it almost impossible to just stick a floppy in and tar to/from
> it because the automounter had it locked.

Actually, there was an alternate path that was automatically created
what provided raw access to the device. vold managed these virtual nodes
so that you could certainly access the raw device if desired, even though
the daemon took over the drive.

I do agree, however, that it was very clunky. What I do is simply add to
/etc/fstab lines of the sort:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat rw,user,noauto
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/pd ext2 user,noauto

and just 'mount /mnt/cdrom' which is half way there anyhow. (The problem
with the automounter is it doesn't unmount right away, or when the
media is removed.)

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