Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 07:10:52 PST From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Automounting CD-ROMs Message-ID: <9511031510.AA09284@gnu.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 1995 13:21:02 PST." <199511022121.WAA02982@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> 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
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