Robert Lunnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to stir the pot a bit and ask whether Solaris's practise of locking
> the
> manual cd open is really necessary when read-only media in mounted. Why not
> allow a manual eject and just invalidate the fs and unmount the filesystem
> automatically on a media remove.
>
> I am suggesting this because I have a couple of friends who I have shifted to
> Solaris and they continually complain about the CDROM not ejecting. It would
> be much better from a user POV to allow manual ejects.
This practice is used since 1988 and before Microsoft and Linux did something
else, nobody complained.
Jörg
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