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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org, "Kent, Ian I." <IAN.KENT@woodside.com.au>
Subject: Re: Trapping eject button on CD-ROM
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:07:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4055F0D1.9080603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403151124.38057.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> On Monday 15 March 2004 04:56, Jon Niehof wrote:
> 
>>>Maybe what you need is supermount.
>>>
>>>Google search should turn up something.
>>
>>Perfect. Thank you; that does exactly what I want for
>>my removables and autofs handles the rarely-used
>>partitions fine. Perfect all around.
> 
> 
> Agree, automoun is fine. A short timeout for CD's work fine. Set the timeout 
> to 15 seconds. Shorter is bad if you tend to use GUI's that don't hold a lock 
> on the CD, as the CD will often be unounted/remounted (=slow) inbetween the 
> clicks. and all you have to do is wait a few seconds before the disk is 
> ejected. If it doesn't come out someone is using it.
> 

Note that any time your filesystem is unmounted you throw away the cache.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-15 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4827392DDA3F414D80608255823E18910F768A@permls01.wde.woodside.com.au>
2004-03-15  3:56 ` Trapping eject button on CD-ROM Jon Niehof
2004-03-15 10:24   ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-03-15 18:07     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-03-14 16:40 Jon Niehof
2004-03-14 19:01 ` H. Peter Anvin

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