well, for a bit of OT discussion sake, here's how it imho SHOULD work,
from user (noobs and non guru) desktop point of view:
cd/dvds: mounted automatically on insert / first access. if a program is
running from it (or a file is open from it), and user tries to eject it
using button, or any eject
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Freitag, 22. Juli 2005 18:38 schrieb Lasse Kärkkäinen / Tronic:
> > > Supermount is obsolete there are other tools in userspace that do the
> > > job perfectly.
> > > e.g ivman which uses hal and dbus.
> >
> > They cannot mount on demand, thus cannot
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Lasse K??rkk??inen / Tronic wrote:
> > To mount on demand use autofs. Unmounting and dealing with media removal
> > is the problem.
>
> Granted, that can get pretty close. However, having to use /auto/*
> instead of mounting directly where required often limits using it quite
> To mount on demand use autofs. Unmounting and dealing with media removal
> is the problem.
Granted, that can get pretty close. However, having to use /auto/*
instead of mounting directly where required often limits using it quite
a bit. Thus, I don't see it as a real alternative.
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Am Freitag, 22. Juli 2005 18:38 schrieb Lasse Kärkkäinen / Tronic:
> > Supermount is obsolete there are other tools in userspace that do the
> > job perfectly.
> > e.g ivman which uses hal and dbus.
>
> They cannot mount on demand, thus cannot do the same job. The boot
> partition, for example, is
> Supermount is obsolete there are other tools in userspace that do the
> job perfectly.
> e.g ivman which uses hal and dbus.
They cannot mount on demand, thus cannot do the same job. The boot
partition, for example, is something that should only be mounted when
required. The same obviously also g
>2005/7/21, Lasse Kärkkäinen / Tronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Is there a reason why this magnificient piece of software is not already
> in the mainline? It seems to be working very well and provides
> functionality that simply isn't available otherwise.
>
Hi Tronic,
Supermount is obsolete there a
Lasse K??rkk??inen / Tronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> Is there a reason why this magnificient piece of software is not already
> in the mainline?
Yes, there is. Please search the archives.
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Gustavo Guillermo Perez wrote:
Cause I play with old toys, (floppys) and ivman doesn't work properly on the
lastest gentoo with floppys, I retouch for a while the supermount patch from
sourceforge for kernel 2.6.11-rc1.
I'm a n00b on kernel, I do this only for general purposes helping some
frie
I gree with Stevie Kieu and Sam Halliday
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Supermount has been integrated into the Mandrake 8 kernel (2.4);
I have been unable to locate the standalone patch for this, however.
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I totally aggree, supermount is nice features and it
should be integrated into the main kernel stream (just
my HO)
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> Supermount sounds to me like a very important part of linux, at least for us
> who like our cds/dvds/etc. to work as easily as in fx. windows. For linux to
> be popular among "normal" users, it should be present at every system with
> local removable drives. So, my question is; why isn't supe
I don't know if this applies to 2.4.2, but there is a patch for 2.4.0:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/8144/supermount.html
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