From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 30 06:06:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA11196 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 06:06:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA10980 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 06:05:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5688) with SMTP id PAA08533 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 15:05:17 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 14:59:58 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Vold (was: What to do with this thing ?! (fwd)) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The "correct" solution would be to mount the media locally, however: > - we don't have a "vold" (or comparable) We actually have. It's called Remedae. And yes it is beta. And yes I would appreciate a lot of feedback whether it works and why not. It handles all kinds of removable devices and can do automounting for SCSI devices. As in, you insert your Yaz disk and after a second it mounts the device. The automounting requires patching of the kernel (the kernel is a bit noisy if you try to mount a device and the medium is not present) and libc_r to be present (I used threads to separate the automounting from the forced mounting). The approach is very simple: daemon and a small program to chat to the daemon through a socket. One nice feature: you can easily tell it to bugger off and mind its own business and NOT automount a specific device for a moment, without zapping the rmd: rmunmanage/rmmanage Can't remember the exact location, but a pointer can be found on http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message