Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:38:15 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: testing@lists.pcbsd.org Subject: Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem? Message-ID: <gs4kfj$4tc$2@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <991123400904150450p56d24ba5vcd15de8c34096ab0@mail.gmail.com> References: <991123400904150450p56d24ba5vcd15de8c34096ab0@mail.gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig53AB8C55D370A7DD252041D4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hello List, >=20 > For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow > has FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, > external drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not > happen on FreeBSD. > I have seen several questions being asked on this list about this > feature, but the answer is neither here nor there. > There is even a port (sysutils/automounter) that I believe is supposed > to help towards this, but again it's not as easy as it seems to be. > Now my question is just one: Why should it be this difficult for FreeBS= D > to have the automount feature within the base system? > If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it. Of course. Find someone and pay him to do it, just like OS X and Linux did :) (or look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?devd.conf and http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?amd ) --------------enig53AB8C55D370A7DD252041D4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ5dU3ldnAQVacBcgRApcqAJ48XfVJ1zjTvz9ZruvrZJ7oaMaM5gCgpIrq 1Ip4ZGLBmw7BDwWo8cB34ac= =rkld -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig53AB8C55D370A7DD252041D4--
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