Sid Boyce wrote:
Preston Crawford wrote:
I agree, with regards to the problems of subfs. Is there a way to turn this "off" for lack of a better way to phrase the question? I'd like to use the old mount/umount system personally.
Preston
# o /data1/usr/src/kernel-modules/subfs/README Submount-2.4 subfs version 0.2 May 16, 2003 Copyright (C) 2003 Eugene S. Weiss
Subfs is the kernel portion of the submount removable media handling system. For submount to function, it needs both the subfs kernel module and the submountd program to be installed.
For installation instructions, see the file INSTALL in this directory. ============================================================= It should be possible to "rmmod subfs" if it does not report busy. Another way would be to move the module e.g /lib/modules/2.6.4-54.5-default/extra/subfs.ko or /lib/modules/2.4.21-99-athlon/kernel/fs/subfs/subfs.o as appropriate out of the directory so it's not found on boot up, same for /sbin/submountd as an alternative. subfs is not in the standard kernels from kernel.org, it's available as a patch only and is still work in progress. I don't have it in my kernel.org kernels and apart from the message during boot that says it's not available in the kernel, everything behaves as before 9.1, usb printer, scanner, digital camera, webcam on both x86 and x86_64, plus a usb serial port and genius optical mouse on the x86_64 laptop. Regards Sid.
But the hotplug scripts in 9.1 no longer create entries in /etc/fstab, so that means the user cannot mount the device unless root makes the entry. Then there is the problem that USB hotplugged devices aren't guaranteed to show up as the same /dev/sd?? device each time, so entries in /etc/fstab can't really be static. -- _____________________ Christopher R. Carlen crobc@earthlink.net Suse 8.1 Linux 2.4.19