Pixel wrote:
> 
> Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > The only issue I see, is that with autofs the mountpoints are not
> > visible.  That is, you go to /auto (or wherever) and do a ls, and you
> 
> i don't really know either, but here is what i think:
> 
> With autofs, you can put a very low unmounting timeout. But in that case you
> loose the buffer, everytime you access a file, it must read again as it was
> unmounted.

Either that or you have to put a "killall -USR1 automount" icon onto
your desktop in order to release all your mounted file systems, which
really isn't much better than the kde mount/unmount device files. In my
experience, autofs just doesn't respond quickly enough when you want to
swap floppies.
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