On Fre, 2006-04-07 at 16:48 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 14:40 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > In that case, I'm guessing fam (gamin) is providing the notification. > > This is a good discussion, I am going to learn something here. It was > my understanding that the File Alteration Monitor is used to tell the > operating system when there are changes to files in monitored > filesystems.
That's still correct. > > When you plug in a device, there is no filesystem for that device yet, > so how does FAM notify anything? It doesn't, FAM doesn't detect device changes. > > And then what does it notify so that an appropriate fstab entry is > created. And what tells the operating how to create that fstab entry? It's the other way round. udev notifies HAL of new devices, older HAL versions call fstab-sync to create fstab entries on demand and the /etc/fstab change gets noticed by FAM which notifies gnome-vfs. But gnome-vfs is not responsible for automounting, that's what gnome-volume-manager does. gnome-volume-manager gets notified directly by HAL. HTH, Jürg -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
