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 -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
