Return-Path: Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <153883-8088>; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 02:03:32 -0400 Received: from argon.roma2.infn.it ([141.108.16.147]:5056 "EHLO argon.roma2.infn.it" ident: "IDENT-NONSENSE") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id <153921-8088>; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 01:48:17 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:14:27 +0200 (CEST) From: "Lorenzo M. Catucci" To: Linux Kernel List Subject: Re [2]: automount/volume management Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Content-Length: 1202 Lines: 35 On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 23:42:33 -0700 (PDT), Jauder Ho > said: > > > I think there was something called supermount from a couple of years ago > > that did this. I'm not sure. > > Yes. Just by coincidence, I was working on the latest version of > supermount just today, fixing a couple of compatibility problems. If it > proves stable I'll look at porting forward to 2.1 (it is currently 2.0 > only). It provides fully transparent removable media support. > Not much statistics, but I'm using supermount since september 1997 on half a dozen boxes I manage without any problem. To me, the very fact that it didn't get ported to 2.1 represents a showstopper for 2.2 (will never downgrade to a linux without supermount available, be it a patch or -better- integrated within the kernel) I cheered some more times Stephen for this piece of code, but doing it once more shouldn't harm: "An Hurray for Stephen, who gave us supermount" l. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/