Re: Supermount

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis@awesomeplay.com>]

On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 05:17, David Findlay wrote:
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> Is there a particular reason why Supermount couldn't be included in the 
> debian unstable kernels as an option? It works brilliantly on Mandrake, and 
> makes things much easier to use. Thanks,

Supermount is horrendously unstable.  Of all the hard kernel crashes
I've ever had (like, say, 4?, not counting the non-Linux friendly
laptops...) 3 were caused by supermount.

I'd say you hack on Supermount and stabilize the hell out of it.  Also,
perhaps kernel 2.6/3.0 will have this kind of functionality as is, since
everything will supposedly be hot-swappable - and I don't see why
"hot-swappable" CD-ROM's and floppies can't be done.

And, in response to the other posters on this thread, automount does
*not* provide equivalent functionality.  First, because it doesn't take
time to unmount.  Second, because of the mounting/unmounting, it
provides an excess amount of time waiting for media to be mounted. 
Third, it doesn't let you eject while it's in use, which is actually a
problem, because sometimes you *need* to eject while in use.  If umount
had an option (even as root) to unmount/eject when in use, then there
wouldn't be a problem.  But when a process goes into disk sleep mode,
and never comes out of it, on a CD that other apps read just fine, and
you can't eject the CD without rebooting the entire
server/workstation... well, it sucks, to say the least.

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> David
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