Bug 25529

Summary:	Better handling of removable devices
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	ramon
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description ramon 2001-02-01 21:34:13 UTC

I wish not having to type mount/umount for viewing a CD-ROM, floppy, ...
Although Redhat includes autofs, the solution is far from perfect: the user
cannot eject the CD-ROM if a program is in it; and there is a timeout.

The right solution is "supermount". With supermount using a removable
device is transparent to the user. The user can go to /mnt/cdrom and change
the CD-ROM without leaving this directory. Mandrake is integrating
supermount into its distribution. I think Redhat should do the same.


Ramon

Comment 1 Michael K. Johnson 2001-02-08 18:19:48 UTC

Not for this release...