Re: usbmount: udev script to automatically (un)mount USB mass storage devices: include in Debian?

2005-03-08 Thread Steve Greenland
On 08-Mar-05, 09:15 (CST), martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.08.1423 +0100]: > > While not perfect, using autofs with a very short timeout (5 seconds, > > say) alleviates this problem. > > No it does not. You would be surprised h

Re: usbmount: udev script to automatically (un)mount USB mass storage devices: include in Debian?

2005-03-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mount -o sync ... is then a solution, especially if you only put small=20 > things, and that the performance loss is not too painfull. Currently sync isn't supported on FAT (there are patches to provide it). If you're using ext2/3, that isn't a problem

Re: usbmount: udev script to automatically (un)mount USB mass storage devices: include in Debian?

2005-03-08 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! Pierre Habouzit [2005-03-08 16:22 +0100]: > mount -o sync ... is then a solution, especially if you only put small > things, and that the performance loss is not too painfull. That would be completely true if "sync" would hold what the name promises. VFAT does not (completely) implement "syn

Re: usbmount: udev script to automatically (un)mount USB mass storage devices: include in Debian?

2005-03-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mardi 8 Mars 2005 16:15, martin f krafft a ÃcritÂ: > also sprach Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.08.1423 +0100]: > > While not perfect, using autofs with a very short timeout (5 > > seconds, say) alleviates this problem. > > No it does not. You would be surprised how many people co

Re: usbmount: udev script to automatically (un)mount USB mass storage devices: include in Debian?

2005-03-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.08.1423 +0100]: > While not perfect, using autofs with a very short timeout (5 seconds, > say) alleviates this problem. No it does not. You would be surprised how many people copy to and remove the stick the same second that cp returns to th

Re: usbmount: udev script to automatically (un)mount USB mass storage devices: include in Debian?

2005-03-08 Thread Steve Greenland
On 08-Mar-05, 01:39 (CST), martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it can't be done... that's one thing. You can "remove > knowledge of the medium from the system once it has been pulled > out". You cannot unmount it because it will already be removed by > the time that udev or any othe

Re: usbmount: udev script to automatically (un)mount USB mass storage devices: include in Debian?

2005-03-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.07.2034 +0100]: > In the course of the discussion I got the impression that this way > of automatically (un)mounting USB devices was not percieved as > a good idea. Well, it can't be done... that's one thing. You can "remove knowledge of the

usbmount: udev script to automatically (un)mount USB mass storage devices: include in Debian?

2005-03-07 Thread Martin Dickopp
Hello, I have written and packaged a script to automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices (e.g. USB memory pens) when they are plugged in or removed. The script is invoked by udev. To solicit opinions, I posted about it to debian-mentors list last October: http://lists.debian.org