Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 21:15:49 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Lyndon Nerenberg VE7TCP <lyndon@orthanc.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automounting CD-ROMs Message-ID: <27895.815289349@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Nov 1995 16:28:44 PST." <199511020028.QAA26005@multivac.orthanc.com>
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> Are any of you familiar with the Irix 'mediad' daemon? It's main > purpose in life is to handle the CDROM automount scenario being > discussed. The program refers to a config file listing the devices > to be scanned, and probes them periodically (I think every five > seconds) to look for media insertion. If a CDROM appears, and if it > contains a recognized filesystem, the filesystem is mounted automatically > at a location also specified in the config file. It locks the device > to prevent a front-panel ejection of the media. Graceful unmount and > eject is handled by the 'eject' command. Well, Terry will probably reject this as architecturally unclean (*grin*) but it sounds like something that would fill the bill quite nicely for now.. Any takers? :-) Jordan
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