On Wednesday 14 March 2007 10:35, Stevens wrote:
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 05:19, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007 05:06:54 Stevens wrote:
Media devices mount by the volume info which renders any software invalid that expects to see a fixed mount point. Yes, someone here posted a link to a workaround but my question is: why in Hell did Suse allow this bastardized code to make it into production in the first place? It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the system should provide static mount points for a device, not the &%$#@ volume info of the media in it.
If you add the device to fstab, the media system will ignore the device and not try to mount it. Now, for that you need a device name, and you can get one using /dev/dsk/by-id I guess.
I don't think there is any functonality lost here.
You are certainly entitled to your opinion which, in this case, is wrong. Functionality IS lost when I have programs that cannot access the CD/DVD drive because they are looking for a /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc mount point and wonderful Suse 10.2 won't provide it. Why not? Who knows. As one writer said here recently, Solaris has been providing both volume label mounts and links to device mount for years.
Look, Mac, when a non-guru like my daughter or son-in-law runs into roadblocks like these, they don't have (and should not need) the expertise it takes to hammer out a command line workaround. The system should just work. No muss, no fuss, just work. And there are really important (to lots of folks) parts of Suse 10.2 that don't. At least they don't here. Just remember that Betamax was a superior video tape recording system but it lost out to VHS and became a historical footnote. I don't want Suse to do the same because the system development teams can't see the big picture.
Fred
I really don't have anything useful to the list to add, but perhaps useful to Novell and the developers: I agree 100% with the previous writer. If Linux is ever to have a significant proportion of the market, it must be at least as big as the Mac market to survive, and it _must be user-friendly_ or it will be as dead as CPM and DOS. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org