Re: Can this CD/Floppy Behaviour be Done? [offtopic?]

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Tue, 08 Dec 1998 16:37:34 -0400

Dennis Grant <dg50@daimlerchrysler.com> said:

[...]

> One of the behaviours I really miss from my Amiga days is the ability to
> auto-detect and auto-mount removeable media filesystems.

[...]

> Is it possible, using current tools, to duplicate this behaviour? If
> not, is it worth adding?

Take a look at autofs, the example configuration file in RedHat-5.1 at
least show how to implement some of these capabilities. The basic idea is
to automount the filesystem on reference. Umounting still takes some time
(tunable). OTOH, AFAIU little (if any) CDROM drives tell back that the user
is trying to eject the disk so as to start the umount.

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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