From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 3 07:11:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA14168 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 07:11:47 -0800 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA14163 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 07:11:43 -0800 Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14507(7)>; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 07:10:47 PST Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13826; Fri, 3 Nov 95 10:10:54 EST Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09284; Fri, 3 Nov 95 10:10:53 EST Message-Id: <9511031510.AA09284@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Automounting CD-ROMs In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 1995 13:21:02 PST." <199511022121.WAA02982@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 07:10:52 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > As Marty Leisner wrote: > > > > Linux has a concent of "user" mount, so any user can generate a > > mount /cdrom command (if the entry for /cdrom is user). > > I know (and no, it hasn't been implemented in FreeBSD), but that's > only one side of the coin. The story continues if it comes to NFS > file systems, DOS file systems etc. They should be mounted if they > are available at boot time, but they should or should not cause the > autoboot to stop, depending on their importance for the system. > I'm not sure I agree... I recently installed a slackware Elf system, and it mounts the CDROM automatically if one is there. (it does it in an rc. script, I haven't looked at it...) I often find this annoying, because just because a CD-ROM is present at boot time, it doesn't mean I want to use it (most of the time its present from a past session). -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom