Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3901 mails)

[Stephen Boddy <stephen.boddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 23:23, Stephen Boddy wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 January 2005 06:53, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > Carlos,
> >
> > On Monday 17 January 2005 10:40, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > ...
> > >
> > > I don't like the automount idea at all, I prefer manual mounting. ...
> >
> > Why? You like doing things the hard way? It's kind of tedious, isn't it?
> > I can see disallowing auto-run file execution--I do--but what's to be
> > gained by having to go through the ritual "mount ..." incantion?
>
> Speed? When my system automounts it uses that sync option that means
> hopeless transfer rates. I measured the difference between synced and
> non-synced with my firewire HD, and the difference was something crazy like
> 16x as long with a synced mount! If someone knows a way to tune the
> automount parameters for individual devices, I'd be very pleased to know
> the details.

Actually, thinking about it, this is more to do with hotplug.
-- 
Steve Boddy