Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Nov 2003 11:50:16 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Accessing device information in REMOVE agent |
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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,
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