Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hello List, > > For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow > has FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, > external drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not > happen on FreeBSD. > I have seen several questions being asked on this list about this > feature, but the answer is neither here nor there. > There is even a port (sysutils/automounter) that I believe is supposed > to help towards this, but again it's not as easy as it seems to be. > Now my question is just one: Why should it be this difficult for FreeBSD > to have the automount feature within the base system? > If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it.
Of course. Find someone and pay him to do it, just like OS X and Linux did :) (or look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?devd.conf and http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?amd )
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