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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Anything like Solaris's volume management? Date: 29 Jun 1996 17:26:24 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4r3p00$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4r1iq3$h2d@oink.cs.utexas.edu> <31D47B44.CE6D7D4@lambert.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: > > I was wondering if FreeBSD offered anything similar to vold on Solaris > > (e.g. automatically mount CD-ROMs and theoretically other things when > > they are inserted into the drive)? > > Not yet. It requires management of "device arrival" events, > integration of devfs, and some significant changes to the mount > code (most of which have already been submitted). In particular, PeeCee floppy drives don't even have a reliable method to find out about whether there's a medium in the drive, so don't expect them to generate ``device arrival'' events. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)