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

[Keith Hopkins]

Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> 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.
> 

SuSE 9.1 (which defaults to the 2.6 kernel) is using submount (subfs) http://sourceforge.net/projects/submount/

Good summary of it http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0305.2/0018.html

I guess that makes it a 2.5 kernel change ;)

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   Keith