After installing the 2.4.2 version of the kernel, the supermount automounter 
no longer works.. Is there a way to get supermount back ? Right now i'm using 
automounter/autofs, which do several bad things.

To be more exact, it's  blanking out the /mnt directory for all but what's 
mounted (so i can't access an not-yet-mounted dir through gui), _locking_ 
mounted dvd/cdrw-drives so that i can't eject a cd before the unmount timeout 
is up, only allowing root to write to fx. my floppy disks and windows 
partition, and generally doesn't unmount/remount when it should do so.

Here's a copy of my configuration files:

"/etc/auto.master":
/mnt    /etc/auto.mnt

"/etc/auto.mnt":
dvdrom          -fstype=auto,ro -timeout=1      :/dev/cdrom
cdrw            -fstype=auto,ro -timeout=1      :/dev/scd0
floppy          -fstype=auto    -timeout=1      :/dev/fd0
target          -fstype=auto    :/dev/hdd1
windows         -fstype=auto    :/dev/hda1

The ones i need to automount is just dvdrom, cdrw and floppy, but i had to 
put the others in there to make them available at /mnt/..., since autofs 
takes complete control of that dir. Btw, the timeout i set on those are the 
closest i got to "remount on demand", which in my case means wait at least 
one minute to be able to eject a cd, if i'm lucky enough that no processes 
access it just a tiny little bit for no particular reason so that i have to 
wait forever.

Is there any way i can get this to work as perfect as supermount did ? I 
guess supermount disappeared because it's a mandrake kernel-extension, is 
that extension available for general use ?

Gerry

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