Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Ideas for v2.1 | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 1996 12:53:31 +0000 (ZOM) | From | "Paul Slootman" <> |
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aem@ott.hookup.net (Andrew E. Mileski) wrote:
> > Or what about a person with two removeable media SCSI drives. It > > would be nice it the mountpoint could be specific to the actual > > removeable disk so it doesn't matter which removeable drive the disk > > is mounted in. > > Although I like your idea, I wonder if it is possible to incorporate > this into existing filesystems? For it to be practical, I think > _all_ fs types should be supported.
Solaris has been brought up already a couple of times in this thread; apparently they had at least *some* good ideas :-)
The volume manager in Solaris will automount a cdrom under /cdrom/<volume>, where <volume> is the volume label of the cdrom. A DOS floppy will be mounted under /floppy/<volume>. A symbolic link to the first mounted cdrom is available as /cdrom/cdrom0, so that you can easily access the cdrom without first checking what the volume label is.
This behaviour takes a bit of getting used to, but once you've used it for some time, it's quite pleasant.
For this to work on _all_ fs types (as suggested above), the fs type should support some notion of a volume label.
Paul Slootman -- Murphy Software, Enschede, The Netherlands There is no such thing work: paul@wau.mis.ah.nl / paul@murphy.nl as a coincidence. home: paul@wurtel.hobby.nl
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