Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Jun 1996 21:22:14 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Bernhard Kaindl <> | Subject | Re: Ideas for v2.1 |
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On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Stephen Tweedie wrote: > 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.
Isn't also rougly that was kerneld does?
Put in a cd, chdir do it, read a file, go off the cd, wait a minute and the isofs and sr_mod modules are unloaded and you can take your cd.
Bernhard
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