RE: mounting/unmounting devices for newbies

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

it would do exactly what dos does. :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michael ROGERS [SMTP:M.Rogers@cs.ucl.ac.uk]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 29, 1999 1:55 PM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Re: mounting/unmounting devices for newbies
> 
> 
> >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>
> 
>  I'm not sure what would happen if one of your applications had a file
> open on 
> the floppy, and you yanked out the floppy and then tried to save or even
> close 
> the file. Any changes to the way disks are mounted have to be compatible
> with
> the old system from the application's point of view. I think one reason
> you 
> can't forcibly unmount a disk is that there may be files open on it (eg a
> user
> may be cd-ed to a directory on the disk).
> 
> 
>  - Michael Rogers
> 
> 
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