Am Monday 13 February 2006 20:59 schrieb Thomas Hertweck: > My email was a follow-up email. This email was not meant to present a > serious background for a discussion about the pros and cons of subfs > etc. Please read my previous emails to understand the context. Quick > summary: any future automount mechanism to be included in SUSE Linux is > welcome and will be appreciated by many users - however, one should be > able to easily switch it off and to use the traditional way of mounting > filesystems as there are also many people around who don't like this > automount "feature" at all. I think that is a realistic point of view. > > The following part should not be treated tooooo seriously:
I just wanted to state that the standard-winers are usually wrong ;) > Adrian Schröter wrote: > > Am Sunday 12 February 2006 14:10 schrieb Thomas Hertweck: > >> [...] Who says that I want to have immediate access to the > >> content of a CD-ROM or USB stick after insertion/plugin? > > > > Who says you(means the user) won't ? > > I think, I (means the user) know much better than the computer what I > want to do! When computers have reached such a level that they are able > to predict exactly what I would like to do all the time, then it's time > for mankind to surrender... ;-) > > > [...] > > classic /etc/fstab user entries do have the same problem. > > No, because nothing is mounted automatically. but everybody is allowed to do the mount. So you can't insert any media and be sure that only you can access it on a multiuser system -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
