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Subject: Re: New Zaurus Wishlist - removable media handling
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: "David D. Hagood" <wowbagger@sktc.net>
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Le jeu 27/06/2002 ? 04:18, David D. Hagood a ?crit :
> Tomasz Rola wrote:
> 
> > As a former Amiga user and now yet another Linux user, I probably know
> > what you mean. Well, I'm not a kernel engineer but maybe it could be done
> > with a virtual fs like /dev - so that
> 
> This sounds like autofs - you'd just need a program to scan all 
> available removable block devices, and look for a "label" to ID the 
> media - either a (V)FAT label, or an EXT(23) label, or XFS label, or....
> 
> Then you mount the named volume as needed, with a 10 second umount 
> timeout, so that you can remove it easily.

timeouts are *evil*. 


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