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From: "Matthias Scheler" <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 12:07:00 +0200
Subject: Re: vold for NetBSD
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Rick Kelly wrote in comp.unix.amiga about "Re: vold for NetBSD":
> 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.

That makes "amd" more attractive as replacement because it won't mount
anything before you access it.

-- 
Matthias Scheler
tron@lyssa.owl.de