Re: automount program

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

brunomaximom@openmailbox.org wrote:
> Hi, I think kFreeBSD needs an automount program.

As programmer of burn software for optical media, i would
like to add the constraint that the automounter should not
grope drives which are in the progress of writing to CD
or DVD-R media. Such burn runs will immediately yield
a misburn.

In the past i tried to contact the developers of hald and
later of udev, in order to get on Linux some way of
coordinating burn program and drive inspector.
No success.

It would be nice if your automounter would allow such
a coordination, i.e. reservation of a drive by other
applications, so that it gets neither inspected nor mounted.
After the burn run, the reservation would be released and
the automounter could inspect the result. (If i/o cache is
not still holding the old content, that is.)  


Have a nice day :)

Thomas