Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:37:35 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem? Message-ID: <gs4rfc$tt1$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <49E5E62E.3010906@gmail.com> References: <991123400904150450p56d24ba5vcd15de8c34096ab0@mail.gmail.com> <49E5E62E.3010906@gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Odhiambo Washington wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has >> FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external >> drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not happen on >> FreeBSD. >> 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? >> If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it. >> >> > FreeBSD *can* automount. The problem for the time being is pulling a USB > flash drive without unmounting. This works better in 7-STABLE. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ5fEvldnAQVacBcgRAjfQAKDmBX8X+l1+EC1cCDyEJ+iEZPKIZQCeO5QB CXLa+ApSww56ZAAm+jjPMmM= =pEAn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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