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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!sysko2.syskoplan.net!omp-paderborn.de!fiction!colwyn!lyssa!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc References: <4sv9aj$mrc@bastion.dhn.csiro.au> <54219@lyssa.owl.de> <4tdl3k$jq4@news-old.tiac.net> From: "Matthias Scheler" <tron@lyssa.owl.de> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 12:07:00 +0200 Subject: Re: vold for NetBSD Message-ID: <54739@lyssa.owl.de> Organization: Private Internet Ostwestfalen-Lippe Lines: 21 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.amiga:13607 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4180 Rick Kelly wrote in comp.unix.amiga about "Re: vold for NetBSD": > Matthias Scheler (tron@lyssa.owl.de) wrote: > : Phil Kernick wrote in comp.unix.amiga about "vold for NetBSD": > : > Solaris 2 provides a very nice volume daemon that automatically > : > looks after mounting removable media. Is there an equivalent for > : > NetBSD? > > : Now. But one can use AMD's "progmount" feature for this. > > > The downside of vold is that it insists on flogging itself to death > trying to mount anything that you stick in the floppy drive, whether > it has a legitimate filesystem, no format, or ii is a tar archive. That makes "amd" more attractive as replacement because it won't mount anything before you access it. -- Matthias Scheler tron@lyssa.owl.de