Re: New Zaurus Wishlist - removable media handling

[Xavier Bestel]

Le jeu 27/06/2002 à 04:18, David D. Hagood a écrit :
> Tomasz Rola wrote:
> 
> > As a former Amiga user and now yet another Linux user, I probably know
> > what you mean. Well, I'm not a kernel engineer but maybe it could be done
> > with a virtual fs like /dev - so that
> 
> This sounds like autofs - you'd just need a program to scan all 
> available removable block devices, and look for a "label" to ID the 
> media - either a (V)FAT label, or an EXT(23) label, or XFS label, or....
> 
> Then you mount the named volume as needed, with a 10 second umount 
> timeout, so that you can remove it easily.

timeouts are *evil*.