From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: "David D. Hagood" <wowbagger@sktc.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New Zaurus Wishlist - removable media handling
Date: 27 Jun 2002 10:11:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1025165512.1078.91.camel@bip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D1A75FD.6010801@sktc.net>
Le jeu 27/06/2002 à 04:18, David D. Hagood a écrit :
> Tomasz Rola wrote:
>
> > As a former Amiga user and now yet another Linux user, I probably know
> > what you mean. Well, I'm not a kernel engineer but maybe it could be done
> > with a virtual fs like /dev - so that
>
> This sounds like autofs - you'd just need a program to scan all
> available removable block devices, and look for a "label" to ID the
> media - either a (V)FAT label, or an EXT(23) label, or XFS label, or....
>
> Then you mount the named volume as needed, with a 10 second umount
> timeout, so that you can remove it easily.
timeouts are *evil*.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-27 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <3D1A2DC1.6040401@travellingkiwi.com>
2002-06-27 0:19 ` New Zaurus Wishlist - removable media handling David Golden
2002-06-27 1:40 ` Tomasz Rola
2002-06-27 1:58 ` kernel: journal /ext3 problem. "Assertion failure" louie miranda
2002-06-27 2:18 ` New Zaurus Wishlist - removable media handling David D. Hagood
2002-06-27 8:11 ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2002-06-27 11:29 ` David D. Hagood
2002-06-27 13:42 ` Tomasz Rola
2002-06-27 2:38 ` [Zaurus-general] " Larry Garfield
2002-06-27 17:26 ` Kent Sandvik
2002-06-27 17:36 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-06-29 0:39 ` Horst von Brand
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