Re: multimounting cdroms ???

From: Aaron Denney (wnoise@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 01:40:58 EST


Andrew McNabb <amcnabb@argus-systems.com> wrote:
> We're talking about alienating gazillions of users with a
> feature that is probably useful in many cases but will
> utterly confound people if they don't specifically ask for it.
> If I want to do a multiple mount, I'll ask for it.
> Otherwise, I'll use the standard behavior that has been
> consistent in all Unices I've ever used.
>
> > > If you insist on adding this "feature", please make it a system tunable (config)
> > > option. Some of us really do not want it.
>
> Amen!

This can be done in userspace, by having mount check. Feel free to write
such a patch.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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