Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:14:27 +0200 (CEST) | From | "Lorenzo M. Catucci" <> | Subject | Re [2]: automount/volume management |
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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi, > > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 23:42:33 -0700 (PDT), Jauder Ho > <jauderho@transmeta.com> said: > > > I think there was something called supermount from a couple of years ago > > that did this. I'm not sure. > > Yes. Just by coincidence, I was working on the latest version of > supermount just today, fixing a couple of compatibility problems. If it > proves stable I'll look at porting forward to 2.1 (it is currently 2.0 > only). It provides fully transparent removable media support. > Not much statistics, but I'm using supermount since september 1997 on half a dozen boxes I manage without any problem. To me, the very fact that it didn't get ported to 2.1 represents a showstopper for 2.2 (will never downgrade to a linux without supermount available, be it a patch or -better- integrated within the kernel)
I cheered some more times Stephen for this piece of code, but doing it once more shouldn't harm: "An Hurray for Stephen, who gave us supermount"
l.
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