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

[Dow Hurst]

Maybe someone with SuSE 9.1 installed could mention what the method is.  I 
don't have a box with it installed.  The box I tried it on had to go back to 
RHEL3 due to software incompatibilities under the 2.6 kernel.  I just thought 
is was part of the new kernel.  Probably just an enhancement to the default 
install of SuSE.
Dow


Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 July 2004 12:17 pm, Dow Hurst wrote:
> 
>>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
> 
> 
> Are you sure that is a 2.6 kernel change?  That sounds more like a SuSE 9.0 -> 
> 9.1 change, to me.  I've been doing this with Mandrake for a long time, now.  
> Mandrake uses supermount (kernel patch + user psace tools) to do this.  I 
> wonder what SuSE uses.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
>>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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