Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:47:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
Message-Id: <200207161047.g6GAluni021252@burner.fokus.gmd.de>
To: Richard.Zidlicky@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de, schilling@fokus.gmd.de
Cc: andersen@codepoet.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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>From rdzidlic@faui02.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Tue Jul 16 12:37:56 2002

>> >The potential for breakage is huge, people run automounters on CD's,
>> >file managers may try to mount the CD without asking the user.
>> 
>> The bad news is that it seems that the automounters are part of the GUIs and 
>> not well enough documented. There should be:
>> 
>> -	Something like the Solaris volume manager that is part of the base OS 
>> 	and kernel folks should forbid GUI folks to add such tasks to the GUI

>Solaris vold? Thanks no, floppy access was so easy in SunOS before the 
>days of the volume manager.

.... and it is even simpler since vold is present. Call volcheck to tell vold
that the media changed or use a SCSI floppy which supports to tell the kernel
that a media change did happen.

>> -	The volume manager should have a documented interface that allows 
>> 	programs like e.g. cdrecord to gain exclusive access to a CD drive.

>much simpler, cdrom driver needs an ioctl to claim exclusive use of
>the device and cdrecord than needs to use that ioctl.

This will not work. What should happen when the drive is mounted?


J?rg

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