Messages in this thread |  | | From | Eugene Weiss <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] submount: another removeable media handler | Date | Fri, 16 May 2003 10:31:47 -0400 |
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> how is it different from what automounter does?
Autofs works by creating a special filesystem above the vfs layer, and passing requests and data back and forth. Submount actually does much less than this- it puts a special filesystem underneath the real one, and the only things it returns to the VFS layer are error messages. It handles no IO operations whatsoever.
Peter Anvin has called using the automounter for removeable media "abuse." Submount is designed for it.
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