The good news:  in RC3 vs. RC2, using supermount with Zip drive and floppy no 
longer causes inability to access Zip or hard hang when writing to floppy....

The bad news:  I continue to have one serious problem:  deleting files from 
either Zip or floppy corrupts the FAT filesystems on these disks, because the 
freed-up clusters are not being properly reclaimed.  You can see this by 
checking available space or by running dosfsck (which will fix the filesystem 
problems).  I cannot believe that others are not complaining about this since 
we have seen this problem on multiple machines starting with MDK8.2.  Perhaps 
most people haven't noticed that the space is vanishing on their zips?  Try 
it:  fill up a zip/floppy, delete the files, and your zip/floppy will still 
be full.  Since this problem does not occur if you disable supermount, it is 
clearly a supermount problem.

Speaking of checking free space on your zip/floppy, RC3 introduces a new 
problem for supermount:  if you try to use Konqueror to check properties of 
/mnt/zip or /mnt/floppy, the "Free space on /mnt/zip" line is now BLANK.  
This was one of the few supermount-related things that worked on RC2.
Also, supermounted devices don't show up using df, so frankly, I am not sure 
how someone is supposed to check free space on their zips/floppies.
I tested the filesystem corruption mentioned above by looking at the disks on 
another machine running MDK8.1 (no supermount, of course)!  Note: if you 
check the properties of the Zip entry you get when using the Removable media 
icon, the free space on / is what is listed.


Additional usability problems for supermount under KDE:
(1)  Most important:  after CDROM has been accessed via Konqueror, when
you eject the CDROM, tray opens and then immdiately closes again.  This 
happens as long as any Konqueror windows are open--even those that have never 
accessed /mnt/cdrom.  So, you have to close ALL Konqueror windows to get your 
CD back--unless you want to forcibly restrain the tray.  (This does not 
happen if you simply cd into /mnt/cdrom--you can eject the CDROM even while
shell windows are still open to /mnt/cdrom.)

(2) With Konqueror, navigating to /mnt, it can take as long as 10s for a 
directory listing to appear.  Similar time to refresh the directory listing.

(3) If you viewing /mnt/zip in Konqueror, then navigate up to /mnt, and eject 
the zip disk, almost immediately the zip subdirectory icon disappears (it 
does not simply switch to showing locked).  The only way to get it back is to 
refresh the directory (which can take many seconds as noted).

(4) Similarly, if you are viewing /mnt/zip in Konqueror, eject the disk, 
insert another, refresh to see new disk listing, and then navigate up to 
/mnt, the zip icon is missing--even though there is a disk in the drive.


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