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Re: usbmount: udev script to automatically (un)mount USB mass storage devices: include in Debian?



On 08-Mar-05, 01:39 (CST), martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote: 
> Well, it can't be done... that's one thing. You can "remove
> knowledge of the medium from the system once it has been pulled
> out". You cannot unmount it because it will already be removed by
> the time that udev or any other user-space/kernel-space tool learns
> about this. 

While not perfect, using autofs with a very short timeout (5 seconds,
say) alleviates this problem.

Steve
-- 
Steve Greenland
    The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
    world.       -- seen on the net



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