[5614] in testers
Re: Linux CD automount?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu Jul 3 18:02:18 2003
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 18:02:16 -0400
Message-Id: <200307032202.SAA02405@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: alexp@MIT.EDU
CC: testers@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <200306272023.h5RKNqji009629@dit.mit.edu> (message from Alex T
Prengel on Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:23:51 -0400)
>It loooks like CDs still don't automount on Linux- is there some reason
>we can't enable this?
I've just had a quick look at the program responsible for doing this
under GNOME (magicdev), and it looks fairly easy to integrate. So,
probably not, at least in the longer term.
>I seem to recall this coming up some time ago but can't readily find the
>reference.
I also remember the discussion, but not where it happened. At the time,
I believe we were looking at system daemons along the lines of Solaris's
vold, and concluded that they weren't suited to our needs; we were
ignorant of magicdev.
