On 4/7/06, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > > When you plug in a device, there is no filesystem for that device yet, > > so how does FAM notify anything? > > I don't know
Possibly it isn't FAM at all. Randy might be right. > > 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? > > The fstab entries are already there > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/mp3 auto user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto 0 0 Maybe this is how it's done without HAL. On my old system when I didn't have HAL support in gnome-vfs, I'd still get the CD icon and automount in gnome. But I already had the entries in /etc/fstab. Andy, what happens if you don't have fstab entries and no HAL? I wouldn't be able to test unless I rebuilt gnome-vfs without HAL (and I don't feel like doing that). Take a look at libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-volume-monitor-daemon.c. It seems to indicate that there volume monitoring with or without HAL through the preprocessor define USE_HAL. Here's something interesting: /* In the event we can't connect to the HAL daemon this boolean is TRUE * and we fall back to the usual fstab/mtab monitoring. * * This is also useful for maintaing the non-HAL code on a system with * HAL installed. */ #ifdef USE_HAL static gboolean dont_use_hald = TRUE; #endif /* USE_HAL */ -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
