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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Anything like Solaris's volume management?
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 17:39:32 -0700
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Hung Michael Nguyen wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if FreeBSD offered anything similar to vold on Solaris
> (e.g. automatically mount CD-ROMs and theoretically other things when
> they are inserted into the drive)?
Not yet. It requires management of "device arrival" events,
integration of devfs, and some significant changes to the mount
code (most of which have already been submitted).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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