On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 05:17, David Findlay wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Is there a particular reason why Supermount couldn't be included in the > debian unstable kernels as an option? It works brilliantly on Mandrake, and > makes things much easier to use. Thanks,
Supermount is horrendously unstable. Of all the hard kernel crashes I've ever had (like, say, 4?, not counting the non-Linux friendly laptops...) 3 were caused by supermount. I'd say you hack on Supermount and stabilize the hell out of it. Also, perhaps kernel 2.6/3.0 will have this kind of functionality as is, since everything will supposedly be hot-swappable - and I don't see why "hot-swappable" CD-ROM's and floppies can't be done. And, in response to the other posters on this thread, automount does *not* provide equivalent functionality. First, because it doesn't take time to unmount. Second, because of the mounting/unmounting, it provides an excess amount of time waiting for media to be mounted. Third, it doesn't let you eject while it's in use, which is actually a problem, because sometimes you *need* to eject while in use. If umount had an option (even as root) to unmount/eject when in use, then there wouldn't be a problem. But when a process goes into disk sleep mode, and never comes out of it, on a CD that other apps read just fine, and you can't eject the CD without rebooting the entire server/workstation... well, it sucks, to say the least. > > David > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE8upqyx58m2d272NoRApsnAKDZu1OzQMjIgUFNFfB2YBS14JMYuACfe9T9 > 5X/WQm7LSJBvVoQYkZiexCg= > =12Ag > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
