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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news.cais.net!mr.net!news.mr.net!rhealey From: rhealey@helios.mn.org (Rob Healey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: vold for NetBSD Date: 2 Aug 1996 15:37:34 GMT Organization: Minnesota Regional Network, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4tt7bu$co9@news.mr.net> References: <4sv9aj$mrc@bastion.dhn.csiro.au> <54219@lyssa.owl.de> <4tdl3k$jq4@news-old.tiac.net> <54739@lyssa.owl.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: defiant.mr.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.amiga:13637 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4227 In article <54739@lyssa.owl.de>, Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de> wrote: >Rick Kelly wrote in comp.unix.amiga about "Re: vold for NetBSD": >> 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. > Rick is being a bit extreme. At home and at work with 2.4 and 2.5 Solaris on SPARC vold gives up after a few trys. It also handles PeeWee format and Mac format(when MAE is installed) floppys automatically as well. I would guess Rick's experience was either with pre 2.4 vold or the earlier 2.4 vold that had problems with unknown formats. The vold concept is a good one and could be lighter weight than the amd monstrousity kludged with yet one more thing. I'm from the UNIX school that says do ONE thing GOOD rather than the VMS school that says do everything mediocre... -Rob -- Rob Healey rhealey@mr.net MRNet Internet Services Phone (612) 362-5823 2829 University Avenue, S.E. Problems (612) 362-5800