--- Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Luca Olivetti wrote on Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at > 12:46:24AM +0100 : > > David Walser wrote: > > >autofs doesn't work very well for removable media > > It does if you set the timeout to be very low.
No, I've tried that and it still doesn't work well enough (1 second is still too long for floppies, and for floppies or CDROMs performance really sucks with all that constant mounting/umounting). I've found it easiest to just have users mount/umount with the KDE icon. It'd be nice if there was a reliable supermount though. > > for a long time) and a cd changer and it works > very well, maybe it > > doesn't work well for floppies if you manually > eject it before autofs > > has unmounted it, but I doubt supermount would > perform better in such a > > case. > > Actually by setting buffers and cache to zero (this > is the way that > supermount works), it works well for floppies > because the light doesn't > turn off until the data has been written. This is > not quite technically > correct, but it's easiest to think of it this way. > > Blue skies... Todd > - -- > | MandrakeSoft USA | Sometimes you get > what you want. | > | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | Sometimes you get > experience. | > | http://www.mandrakelinux.com | > --unknown origin | > Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel > 2.4.20-2mdk > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+H2uBlp7v05cW2woRAqH0AJ9OJaPUoZPljwBnTwM16QeqpAquHQCfYxjj > 8ULwwd+NHxaXF+klmNmFZgs= > =c7yt > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
