From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 15 12:44:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E7A106566C for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:44:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f171.google.com (mail-ew0-f171.google.com [209.85.219.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5EA8FC0C for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:44:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so3050173ewy.43 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:44:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ozef3mdty49cd3/VtF7EB8EEPhIOBoyF/71LVlmBAoM=; b=hydrrDr8rebny6DPzLLr4Gbweg4h/8cC7oYhPFTusLYTXqX70XPfcw2RrJJaIiMQLZ 5SeG8D3bL9GzIoE7AlLLNvGT3ljkw81zs3GQqx9rkdeFhEEnv93EzL+I+sS2Wvbf2bT1 B22mgOQMNys4JEMpG7C1Fg1n0dDaNC0Iea69A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EvuPf3o6J8/SJ933bhAYNNmp3U2vzM6zfkDoMIBV/XlnlWC6NRXmV+dc3Uk3RulgV0 5Kl598P+fXJujyPB0b9NQ7RpMfV3R3a+akWHzzi9yyD1Pub5KI3E0iUidCl1fD/jTyq9 /v8ZDafzK2pGXakLTH2JpWwc60k73efDj8yKU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.45.17 with SMTP id s17mr220268ebs.14.1239799495143; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:44:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <991123400904150450p56d24ba5vcd15de8c34096ab0@mail.gmail.com> References: <991123400904150450p56d24ba5vcd15de8c34096ab0@mail.gmail.com> From: Chris Rees Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:44:40 +0100 Message-ID: To: Odhiambo Washington , FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:44:57 -0000 2009/4/15 Odhiambo Washington : > Hello List, > > For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has > FreeBSD under the hood. No! It has Darwin under the hood, but uses the FreeBSD userland. > When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external > drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not happen on > FreeBSD. This is a HAL feature, and you can do it; certainly I have it in Xfce for CDs. > I have seen several questions being asked on this list about this feature, > but the answer is neither here nor there. > There is even a port (sysutils/automounter) that I believe is supposed to > help towards this, but again it's not as easy as it seems to be. > Now my question is just one: Why should it be this difficult for FreeBSD to > have the automount feature within the base system? No-one has yet made it perfect. Nothing gets committed to the base system unless it works out of the box and works properly. Automounting is a fiddly thing, and is not necessary for the majority of applications; remember FreeBSD is primarily a server OS. > If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it. Linux doesn't just do it. It just happens to be so that Ubuntu (for example) have set this up in their distribution. There are a million things that it would be nice to put in the base system, but all it would do would be to bloat it, and make world rebuilding that little bit longer. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?