Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:47:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thank you Message-ID: <14821.6177.822223.224998@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20001011225507.A258@parish> References: <8847946@toto.iv> <14819.49057.601985.803281@guru.mired.org> <20001011225507.A258@parish>
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Mark Ovens writes: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 08:17:21PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Mark Ovens writes: > > > This is not FreeBSD-specific, all *nixes do this with removable media (the > > > /etc/fstab entry for your floppy, /dev/fd0, also has ``noauto'' for the > > > same reason). > > That last bit isn't quit true. Solaris (2.6 and later on sparc, at > > least) comes with an automounter that automatically mounts cdroms, > True, but an automounter won't hang if there is no CD in the drive at boot > time. Also, isn't the automounter optional (in Solaris anyway)? Well, it's a Unix system, so pretty much everything is optional (AIX, not being a Unix system, makes the volume manager non-optional :-). But Solaris comes with the automounter enabled by default, and no soft-and-squishy (i.e. GUI) method of disabling it. At least, that was true for the last version I looked at (2.5?). Mandrake Linux's default install does the same thing with "supermount" (or some such); some of the installs offer you a chance to turn it off. I think this might be something to think about rolling into FreeBSD, since it can be done with amd. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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