Alex Schuster wrote:
> Adrian writes:
>
>
>>Does any one know if the supermount patch will ever be applied again to
>>gentoo-dev-sources or it's discontinued and there's a user-space thingie
>>to replace it?
>
>
> The new thing is submount. Supposed to be better than supermount
> because it's in user space, but I had the problem that the eject
> command does not work any more, it tries to unmount the device.
My issue with supermount was similar, ejecting the media by physically
pushing the button worked at first, then stopped at some point during
any given session (so the drive was locked, or alternatively, the
command buffer would wig out and the drive would open and
close--possibly more than once-- before I could grab the first disk and
insert the second), and the whole setup didn't seem to play nicely with
FAM insofar as getting a correct listing of files on the media was
spotty at best (especially once eject had wigged out), depending on what
state submount had decided the device was in (mounted, unmounted,
ejected, reinserted-- who could tell?)
It really wasn't worth the trouble just to be a "good girl" and work in
userspace, which is why I went back to supermount until these things
work a bit better, or I learn how to make them work better, whichever
comes first.
I am
> using a version of eject patched by SuSE, downloaded here:
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.1/suse/
>
This is good to know about if I want to give it another try; thanks for
the tip.
Holly
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