On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Matthew D. Pitts wrote: > > I am starting to plan a new version of Supermount. I have some things I want to try >out in it, and I will list them in this message. I am willing to accept any and all >input on what I am wanting to call Supermount 2. > Planned features of Supermount 2: > > 1) Auto-detection of filesystem type. Meaning we will finally have CD-tracks visualized as WAV files? like CD-fs does? Same goes for multisession disks. > > 2) Supermount modules for each filesystem type. How is this on performance (first check for fs type than loading module? than disk is removed, unloading module and loading another one?)
> > 3) Built-in support for packet-writing. ( i.e. insert packet-writing formatted disk >and it loads appropriate kernel modules. ) > > There may be other features added if there is an interest in them. I will need >assistance with the packet-writing support. I am only planning to do this for the >2.5.x and later kernels, so if anyone else wishes to back-port it to an older kerenl >series, by all means do so. I have wanted to make some kind of contribution to this >project for some time and I feel that this is something that will be useful. > What about doing it in userspace? I remember seeing Alan Cox writing he had a proof of concept of something like this on some ftp server (sorry, cannot remember where). > I am going to be making my prelminary code available to whomever wishes to see it >once I get my Linux box back up. sure Danny > > Matthew D. Pitts >
