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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Anything like Solaris's volume management?
Date: 29 Jun 1996 17:26:24 GMT
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:

> > 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).

In particular, PeeCee floppy drives don't even have a reliable method
to find out about whether there's a medium in the drive, so don't
expect them to generate ``device arrival'' events.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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