Robert Lunnon 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.
Not to say it's the wrong thing to do, but under this proposal, what do
you suggest is the appropriate way to handle processes running off of
that filesystem or with open FDs to files on that filesystem?
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.
Personally, it's never bothered me. Maybe once or twice when I had to
go find a console to eject something off of a server, but after you get
used to it, you remember to eject beforehand. :) Also, I frequently
install to a server from the CD in my laptop over NFS anyway-- less
walking and it's not unusual for the drive in my laptop to be faster.
- Matt
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