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From: Eugene Weiss <eweiss@sbcglobal.net>
To: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] submount: another removeable media handler
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 10:31:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200305161027.20045.eweiss@sbcglobal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030516113304.GK32559@Synopsys.COM>


> how is it different from what automounter does?

Autofs works by creating a special filesystem above the vfs layer, and passing 
requests and data back and forth.   Submount actually does much less than 
this- it puts a special filesystem underneath the real one, and the only 
things it returns to the VFS layer are error messages.  It handles no IO 
operations whatsoever.

Peter Anvin has called using the automounter for removeable media "abuse."
Submount is designed for it.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-16 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-16  5:06 [ANNOUNCE] submount: another removeable media handler Eugene Weiss
2003-05-16 11:33 ` Alex Riesen
2003-05-16 14:31   ` Eugene Weiss [this message]
2003-05-16 18:46     ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-19 16:45       ` Steve Brueggeman
2003-05-19 17:12         ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-16 12:16 ` Michael Buesch
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-17  6:05 Eugene Weiss
2003-05-19 10:51 Andrey Borzenkov
2003-05-19 17:10 ` H. Peter Anvin

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