Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 15:08:00 +0100 From: Edward Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org> To: Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: removable storage usability, devd, hald and X11-desktop in general Message-ID: <20180520140800.GA6371@brick> In-Reply-To: <5beffba2-d2d5-689a-9cb1-054379f55adf@omnilan.de> References: <5beffba2-d2d5-689a-9cb1-054379f55adf@omnilan.de>
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On 0519T2035, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: > Hello, > > after 10 years I replaced my personal desktop machine (FreeBSD8 -> > FreeBSD12). > While aware of OS progress, I haven't followed any development on the > X11 planet. > > To my surprise, things were in better shape 10 years ago, regarding > desktop usability. > > Biggest question: How are useres expected to handle removable media? > > I'm a happy user of autofs(5) in several environments (mostly for NFS > mounts), but I'm not aware of any helper tool which enables _users_ to > unmount before pulling the UFD. > I've heard of PC-BSD and Lumina (see later why I haven't really tried > out the modern "light" desktops) and I think I remember having read they > utilize devd(8). But again, how to unmount? Me, I just use three second timeout for autounmountd, like this: autounmountd_flags="-t 3 -r 3".
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