From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Accessing device information in REMOVE agent
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:50:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-106840754225558@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-106829667618187@msgid-missing>
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 01:06:13PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>
> I'd like to (try to) replace current synchronous media change checks in
> supermount by mounting device on insert and releasing it on remove. For those
> cases when it makes sense of course, USB sticks in the first place.
>
> But users are free to use any names or links for their device names i.e. they
> can do
>
> ln -s sda /de/myflash
> mount /dev/myflash
>
> and on remove it is rather hard to match this name against DEVPATH. But I can
> save (major,minor) when mounting and use it to match mounted filesystem on
> remove.
You might want to look into what devlabel does, as it sounds like it
does much the same thing of what you are wanting to do.
Good luck,
greg k-h
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-09 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-08 13:02 Accessing device information in REMOVE agent Andrey Borzenkov
2003-11-08 22:25 ` Greg KH
2003-11-09 10:06 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2003-11-09 19:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
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