I would be much happier with a 2.4.19-13mdk that fixed supermount for CD-ROMs, and did not enable supermount for floppies. The vast majority of people I know hardly ever use a floppy. a number of people even have built machines without floppy drives.
Supermounting the CD with this bug makes the machine totally useless; and explaining manual mounting to my converted friends will scare the hell out of them. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Danny > >Really I haven't seen supermount runing perfectly under 2.4; so, as you >say, is a good idea take in account other possibilities (Volumagic?) for >the future. Anyway I am according to you in the need of change the >default in 9.0 enabling, or, if it is not possible in the final >distribution, adding the solution in "errata". > >Francisco Alcaraz >Murcia (Spain) > > > >----- Mensaje Original ----- >Remitente: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Fecha: Lunes, Septiembre 30, 2002 5:13 pm >Asunto: [Cooker] supermount > > > >>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 (Juavolumagic: >>http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linu >> >>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: >>floppiesneed 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >
