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Date:      Fri, 3 Nov 1995 07:10:52 PST
From:      "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Automounting CD-ROMs 
Message-ID:  <9511031510.AA09284@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 1995 13:21:02 PST." <199511022121.WAA02982@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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> As Marty Leisner wrote:
> > 
> > Linux has a concent of "user" mount, so any user can generate a 
> > mount /cdrom command (if the entry for /cdrom is user).
> 
> I know (and no, it hasn't been implemented in FreeBSD), but that's
> only one side of the coin.  The story continues if it comes to NFS
> file systems, DOS file systems etc.  They should be mounted if they
> are available at boot time, but they should or should not cause the
> autoboot to stop, depending on their importance for the system.
> 

I'm not sure I agree...

I recently installed a slackware Elf system, and it mounts the CDROM
automatically if one is there.  (it does it in an rc. script, I haven't
looked at it...)

I often find this annoying, because just because a CD-ROM is present
at boot time, it doesn't mean I want to use it (most of the time
its present from a past session).


-- 
marty
leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com  
Member of the League for Programming Freedom





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