On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Luca Olivetti wrote:

> David Walser wrote:
>
> > autofs doesn't work very well for removable media
>
> I'm currently using it on a samba server (actually I've been using it
> 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.
> The only real problem is when the windows client keeps the cd busy (even
> with all programs closed) and the user has to close the session in order
> to eject the cd.

In this usage case, automount is no more usefull than

preexec = mount /mnt/cdrom
postexec = umount /mnt/cdrom

Since it will have the same behaviour.

In this specific case, supermount would work better, if Andrei's patches
were applied ...

Buchan

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