Fabrice FACORAT wrote:

> le sam 27-10-2001 at 20:40 Borsenkow Andrej a �crit :
> 
>>Fabrice FACORAT wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>/lib/dev-state is changed only when you change permission/modes or 
>>>>manually create file. It does not matter what is there.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>so we must use the plain device name or else make sda4 in dev-state
>>>
>>>
>>
>>You realy do not understand?  This will work only the first time ever. 
>>After media is ejected this is removed again. To add to confusion, when 
>>you eject using hardware button, Linux does not notice it immediately 
>>and does not remove link (so it looks "as if it works"); but if you 
>>eject programmatically, e.g. with eject command, link disappears. Now 
>>try to explain this to newbies.
>>
> 
> for me it is a bug and just a bug and until devfs is corrected ( or
> kernel removable media detection ) we have to found a workaround.


It is the wrong list for this. You have to discuss this wit Richard 
Gooch (we may of course discuss it here as well, but t won't change 
anything). Actually this was discussed already.


> In all HOWTO they just say : mount your zip to sda4 and that's all
> I'm not going to say : mount it with /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0


Why? Contribute to howtos and say that in case of devfs you better do this.


> So my question is ( I not longer have a zip drive ) does making the
> device /dev/sda4 in /lib/dev-state solve the problem ? 


No. ( Even if we forget that existence of /lib/dev-state creates other 
problems).

if not, is there
> a way to make devfs not handle zip drive ?
> or patch zip driver subsyteme to make it act as supermount ?
> 


I do not understand it. What has it to do with supermount?


-andrej

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