Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 21:10:40 +0100 From: Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> Cc: FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Automounting USB sticks - questions Message-ID: <482752C0.8040401@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4826E7C9.9030407@incunabulum.net> References: <4826E7C9.9030407@incunabulum.net>
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Bruce M Simpson wrote: > I got this working quite easily with the amd daemon. > Thanks to Alfred for your excellent work on this. I wonder what the > status of autofs is? > > It would be great if we could ship FreeBSD out of the box, ready to > automount removable media. This would be useful to all users, but > particularly for novices and people who just wanna get on and use the > beast. > > Since the move to /media for a place to put removable mount points I'd > imagine all of this gets a lot easier. > > However I can understand there are real issues with this: > > * /etc/amd.conf. We don't ship one in /etc by default. Maybe we should? > Speaking as someone who's never looked at amd before last week, this would be great, or at least in /usr/share/examples/etc. > * /etc/amd.map. We ship one which contains defaults and nothing more. > Perhaps commented out examples? > Again I'd find that helpful. I spent 5 or 10 minutes looking into setting up amd (Hardly indepth I know) and gave up because at the moment its easier to manually mount my devices ;) > * There doesn't appear to be a tool to tell amd about new maps at > runtime. Is there such a beast? > UPDATE: I just read code, and it seems SIGHUP can be sent, but this > isn't in the man page and I haven't tried it. > > * devd doesn't have any hooks into GEOM, which makes it difficult to > generate mount lines without retroactively parsing dmesg output. devd as > I understand it sits on top of NEWBUS. > Is there any way I can get a list of the disk devices, from userland, > in the default install, which correspond to a given NEWBUS device? > > * I wonder if there's any way we can get a notification about media > being inserted into a CDROM drive, without polling it? > > I had a brief discussion online with phk@ about doing dynamic mounts, > and it seems that there are still problems dealing with blowing away > mounts when the device goes away. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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