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

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Saturday 10 July 2004 10:55 pm, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> 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 ;)

That's pretty cool--very much like supermount.  So both Mandrake and SuSE 
implement it with something outside Linus' kernel.  I wonder when/if Linux 
will approve one of them.

Michael