nuomt/umount in 2.6 [ Was: Re: [ale] Permission hell question]

[Dow Hurst]

Sure, under SuSE 9.1 with 2.6 I was able to insert a CD and cd into the 
/media/cdrom directory to list the files without the normal mount procedure. 
I was operating as my regular UID and not root too.  Zips, floppies, CD 
drives, and so on were classified as removeable media and so fell into this 
category.  I don't remember if USB devices such as mass storage drives were 
like this too.  I thought it was the best feature change from a user 
perspective out of all the other stuff that changed between 2.4 and 2.6.
Dow


Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 June 2004 12:41 pm, Dow Hurst wrote:
> 
>>If you move to the new 2.6 kernel then all the mount and umount stuff goes
>>away for removeable devices.  
> 
> 
> Dow,
> 
> Could you expand on that?  I hadn't heard about any 2.6 changes in this area.  
> What did I miss?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
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