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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Trapping eject button on CD-ROM
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:07:13 -0800
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To: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org, "Kent, Ian I." <IAN.KENT@woodside.com.au>

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