From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 18:47:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACDE137B503 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:47:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 75672 invoked by uid 100); 12 Oct 2000 01:47:13 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14821.6177.822223.224998@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:47:13 -0500 (CDT) To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thank you In-Reply-To: <20001011225507.A258@parish> References: <8847946@toto.iv> <14819.49057.601985.803281@guru.mired.org> <20001011225507.A258@parish> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.