I got this working quite easily with the amd daemon.
Thanks to Alfred for your excellent work on this. I wonder what the
status of autofs is?
It would be great if we could ship FreeBSD out of the box, ready to
automount removable media. This would be useful to all users, but
particularly for novices and people who just wanna get on and use the beast.
Since the move to /media for a place to put removable mount points I'd
imagine all of this gets a lot easier.
However I can understand there are real issues with this:
* /etc/amd.conf. We don't ship one in /etc by default. Maybe we should?
* /etc/amd.map. We ship one which contains defaults and nothing more.
Perhaps commented out examples?
* There doesn't appear to be a tool to tell amd about new maps at
runtime. Is there such a beast?
UPDATE: I just read code, and it seems SIGHUP can be sent, but this
isn't in the man page and I haven't tried it.
* devd doesn't have any hooks into GEOM, which makes it difficult to
generate mount lines without retroactively parsing dmesg output. devd as
I understand it sits on top of NEWBUS.
Is there any way I can get a list of the disk devices, from
userland, in the default install, which correspond to a given NEWBUS device?
* I wonder if there's any way we can get a notification about media
being inserted into a CDROM drive, without polling it?
I had a brief discussion online with phk@ about doing dynamic mounts,
and it seems that there are still problems dealing with blowing away
mounts when the device goes away.
Bruce M Simpson wrote:> I got this working quite easily with the amd daemon. > Thanks to Alfred for your excellent work on this. I wonder what the > status of autofs is? > > It would be great if we could ship FreeBSD out of the box, ready to > automount removable media. This would be useful to all users, but > particularly for novices and people who just wanna get on and use the > beast. > > Since the move to /media for a place to put removable mount points I'd > imagine all of this gets a lot easier. > > However I can understand there are real issues with this: > > * /etc/amd.conf. We don't ship one in /etc by default. Maybe we should? >Speaking as someone who's never looked at amd before last week, this would be great, or at least in /usr/share/examples/etc.> * /etc/amd.map. We ship one which contains defaults and nothing more. > Perhaps commented out examples? >Again I'd find that helpful. I spent 5 or 10 minutes looking into setting up amd (Hardly indepth I know) and gave up because at the moment its easier to manually mount my devices ;)> * There doesn't appear to be a tool to tell amd about new maps at > runtime. Is there such a beast? > UPDATE: I just read code, and it seems SIGHUP can be sent, but this > isn't in the man page and I haven't tried it. > > * devd doesn't have any hooks into GEOM, which makes it difficult to > generate mount lines without retroactively parsing dmesg output. devd as > I understand it sits on top of NEWBUS. > Is there any way I can get a list of the disk devices, from userland, > in the default install, which correspond to a given NEWBUS device? > > * I wonder if there's any way we can get a notification about media > being inserted into a CDROM drive, without polling it? >> I had a brief discussion online with phk@ about doing dynamic mounts, > and it seems that there are still problems dealing with blowing away > mounts when the device goes away. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
>>>>> "bms" == Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> writes:bms> It would be great if we could ship FreeBSD out of the box, ready bms> to automount removable media. This would be useful to all users, bms> but particularly for novices and people who just wanna get on bms> and use the beast. I think this would be nice, so long as it isn't enabled by default. I've always enjoyed how FreeBSD shuns the feature-creep that infects other operating systems. Wouldn't it also be nice to have automatic printer discovery, automatic WEP/WPA network setup via a nice GUI, etc etc. FreeBSD's documentation is really wonderful, and newbies should be encouraged to read the rich documentation to find out how to (among other things) enable automounting. They'll find out many other great things on the way. Mike V.