Re: mounting/unmounting devices for newbies

[Ben Frantzdale <frantzdb admin arhs net>]

Again, I don't understand what's going on at the kernel level, but it
seems like the real problem is the computer insisting on unmounting the
disk. <ignorant> I'd think automounting the disk whenever it is accessed
wouldn't be that hard, but when I swap disks and try to access
the disk again, linux gets all p'd off. Then I can't unmount
the disk withought putting the first disk in... seems like it'd 
be good if you could just say "no, I don't care that you don't see it, 
unmount it, damn it!" This way a request to the floppy drive would be
something like this: If I still have the same disk mounted, good. If I
have a new disk, mount it. If the disk change while I wasn't
looking, forcably unmount the disk (see above) and mount this one. If
there's no valid disk in the drive, tell the user. </ignorant>

--ben


On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 bob@kehs.ksd.org wrote:

> Hmm, maby it would be better to modify the kernel so that you can mount a
> device to a mount point as well as a filesystem to a mount point.
> Disabeling cashing as well, so for example
> if you mounted /dev/fd0 in /mnt/floppy, it would work just like a: in dos
> 
> On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Harold Campbell wrote:
> 
> > I'm fairly certain dosemu directly handles the floppy drive. The
> > filesystem thereon is never mounted. If you were to mount the floppy and
> > use the redir stuff in dosemu you'd lose the yank in/out semantics once
> > again.
> > 
> > Ben Frantzdale wrote:
> > > 
> > > I must admit, I know very little about this relm, but I do know that
> > > dosemu handles disks like dos should (put it it/yank it out)
> > > 
> > > --ben
> > 
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> > Harold
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