I feel a bit responsible for the current state of supermount, since I talked Juan into fixing floppy-write-PANIC issues, which seems to have utterly broken supermount for CDROMS in the released 9.0 kernel.
A simple 'find' in /mnt/cdrom will probably reveal what I'm talking about (half the files cannot be stat-ed). In addition, there is the problem of non-freeing inodes on zips and floppies. Juan, Andrey and probably others, did a great job on patching up supermount for each release, but I do have to admit that I have not seem it working without problems in the 2.4.x series. So, the question is, since the default enabling of supermount is bound to get people into trouble (try to install a game or whatever from CD), shouldn't there be an update ASAP for 9.0 with a 1) a fix or 2) disabled default supermount. At least it should be added to the errate page. For cooker I really would like to hear (Juan/Andreys) opinion on volumagic: http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/Software/System/Volumagic/ it mounts disks in userspace, and works already for CDROM drives. Is there any reason not to move to this tool for 9.1? It needs some work, but on the long therm certainly looks like a better solution than supermount. One problem remains that can perhaps only be fixed in the kernel: floppies need to sync immediatly (==performance loss) when writing, because the possibility of a manual eject on pc-hardware (this is probably a design error, MAC does it better;) bye, Danny
