Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Eberhard Moenkeberg) | Subject | Re: Ideas for v2.1 | Date | 13 Jun 1996 18:39:05 GMT |
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Stephen Tweedie (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote: : Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> writes: : > On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, DUPRE Christophe wrote: : >> > Also, I'd like to see the tray locking on CDROMS be a little less : >> > strict. If there are no open files on a mounted CD, and no process : >> > has the CD for a current directory, I'd like to be able to open : >> > the CD tray (without a screwdriver :), put in a new disk, and : >> > have it be available when I close the tray. : >> : >> Even if the CD is mounted ?
: > This problem belongs in userland. Someone needs to make a volume manager : > like Slowaris has, so that users can take care of this problem.
: Actually, this is exactly what my "supermount" patches do (available : for 2.0 on linux.dcs.ed.ac.uk in /pub/linux/supermount!). It provides : truly transparent removable media support for both floppy and cdrom.
: There are a couple of problems with the current release. Only msdos : and iso9660 filesystems are supported, and the door locking on 2.0 : kernels means that you can't change disks on cdroms for many drives : which were OK on 1.2. The 0.5 releae of supermount is in progress and : under testing, and will address these deficiencies.
My concept for changing data CDs is: say "umount /CD" watch the tray coming out fetch the old CD put down the new CD say "mount /CD" watch the tray slipping in Realized, years ago. You even can let it do by a robot arm. Standard Linux.
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