This resulted in very pathetic article about general supermount usability a while back ... and I guess the problem is real enough for a end user.
If you have a directory on supermounted drive opened by Konqueror, you cannot change disk. Pressing eject button does not even open tray in my case (it may depend on particular drive); doing programmatical eject opens drive for a second and it is closed again. The reason it is closed is obvious - Konqueror stats currently opened directory almost every second, and supermount tries to mount drive on access. Here are several problems: - why does Konqueror poll in the first place? Linux is expected to support file change notification? - what should we do if we *are* able to change media? Note that in Windows explorer kills currently opened window; in Solaris everything accessing media is killed when you do eject. Supermount invalidates all inodes after media change, so any program that tries to access them should get an error - reasonably expecting that it just exits. anyway, the problem is real in the sense, normal :-0 people do not expect this behaviour. -andrej
