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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Anything like Solaris's volume management? Date: 8 Jul 1996 20:48:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4rrs6g$1eu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4r1iq3$h2d@oink.cs.utexas.edu> <4rds8n$o36@sanson.dit.upm.es> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jmrueda@diatel.upm.es (Javier Martin Rueda ) wrote: > I configured the automounter to mount the CD-ROM on /cdrom, but the > directory to which I had to access (chdir) to mount the CD-ROM was /a/cdrom, > which is a symbolic link to /cdrom. I couldn't find a way to make > both directories the same ... That's natural. The automounter hooks itself into the system as an NFS server, in order to intercept file system lookups. Once it detected a lookup for something it is managing, it first performs the required mount (or other) operation, creates a symbolic link from the mounted resource to whatever the lookup was intended to go to, and returns from the pending NFS call. > To eject the CD-ROM, you have to wait first until it is unmounted when > the inactivity timer expires. Not necessarily. You can also force the automounter to immediately release a mounted resource. This is done with ``amq -u''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)