mount/umount in 2.6 [ Was: Re: [ale] Permission hell question]

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Tuesday 06 July 2004 12:17 pm, Dow Hurst wrote:
> Sure, under SuSE 9.1 with 2.6 I was able to insert a CD and cd into the
> /media/cdrom directory to list the files without the normal mount
> procedure. I was operating as my regular UID and not root too.  Zips,
> floppies, CD drives, and so on were classified as removeable media and so
> fell into this category.  I don't remember if USB devices such as mass
> storage drives were like this too.  I thought it was the best feature
> change from a user perspective out of all the other stuff that changed
> between 2.4 and 2.6. Dow

Are you sure that is a 2.6 kernel change?  That sounds more like a SuSE 9.0 -> 
9.1 change, to me.  I've been doing this with Mandrake for a long time, now.  
Mandrake uses supermount (kernel patch + user psace tools) to do this.  I 
wonder what SuSE uses.

Thanks,

Michael

> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 June 2004 12:41 pm, Dow Hurst wrote:
> >>If you move to the new 2.6 kernel then all the mount and umount stuff
> >> goes away for removeable devices.
> >
> > Dow,
> >
> > Could you expand on that?  I hadn't heard about any 2.6 changes in this
> > area. What did I miss?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Michael
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