Re: Working on a usb-storage hotplug script

[Wout Mertens <wmertens@cisco.com>]

Yesterday at 08:24, Greg KH ponderously produced:

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:05:29AM +0100, Wout Mertens wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering what the current state of auto-mount-inserted-devices
> > is.
> >
> > I posted my script which is run as a hotplug agent for storage some time
> > ago, someone else had one along the same lines, Mandrake uses devfsd to
> > call their configuration scripts and the fstab editor, Lindows has
> > something, Suse as well, there is the vold project which uses polling, ...
> >
> > It sometimes seems that everyone and their brother has their own
> > solution :(
>
> What's wrong with devlabel?  I thougth that's what most people are
> using, as I think it solves the problems you are looking at.
>
> And I don't know anything about devfs :)

Devlabel needs to know about the device beforehand. I can't quickly copy
some pictures to my friends USB stick that way.

Devlabel tries to do something that's important for servers with loads
of drives. It is irrelevant, however, for the behaviour in the previous
paragraph. I insert the key, I copy stuff to the mountpoint, preferrably
through clicking on some icon on the desktop, done. I'll never need that
mountpoint again. It doesn't matter if it is on /dev/sda1 or
/dev/sdz6...

updfstab is another way of handling it, but then the user must remember
to mount first, and unmount afterwards. My script mounts it for the
owner of /dev/console, which means that if you plug in the key before
you're logged in, you don't get access to it.

In any case, I'm happy to see that Linux 2.6 has gotten more much robust
for hotplugging :)

Wout.


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