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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: vold for NetBSD
Followup-To: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Date: 27 Jul 1996 17:53:56 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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Matthias Scheler (tron@lyssa.owl.de) wrote:
: Phil Kernick wrote in comp.unix.amiga about "vold for NetBSD":
: > Solaris 2 provides a very nice volume daemon that automatically looks
: > after mounting removable media. Is there an equivalent for NetBSD?
: Now. But one can use AMD's "progmount" feature for this.
The downside of vold is that it insists on flogging itself to death
trying to mount anything that you stick in the floppy drive, whether
it has a legitimate filesystem, no format, or ii is a tar archive.
One must kill vold to deal with media that does not contain a UFS
filesystem recognized by Solaris.
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Rick Kelly rmk@tencats.rmkhome.com rmk@rmkhome.com
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