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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