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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] supermount
From:       John Allen <john.allen () online ! ie>
Date:       2002-09-30 19:38:00
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I would be much happier with a 2.4.19-13mdk that fixed supermount for 
CD-ROMs, and did not enable supermount for floppies. The vast majority 
of people I know hardly ever use a floppy. a number of people even have 
built machines without floppy drives.

Supermounting the CD with this bug makes the machine totally useless; 
and explaining manual mounting to my converted friends will scare the 
hell out of them.

falcaraz@ono.com wrote:

>Danny 
>
>Really I haven't seen supermount runing perfectly under 2.4; so, as you
>say, is a good idea take in account other possibilities (Volumagic?) for
>the future. Anyway I am according to you in the need of change the
>default in 9.0 enabling, or, if it is not possible in the final
>distribution, adding the solution in "errata".
>
>Francisco Alcaraz
>Murcia (Spain)
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>----- Mensaje Original -----
>Remitente: <danny@mailmij.org>
>Fecha: Lunes, Septiembre 30, 2002 5:13 pm
>Asunto: [Cooker] supermount
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>>I feel a bit responsible for the current state of supermount, since 
>>I 
>>talked Juan into fixing floppy-write-PANIC issues, which seems to 
>>have 
>>utterly broken supermount for CDROMS in the released 9.0 kernel.
>>
>>A simple 'find' in /mnt/cdrom will probably reveal what I'm talking 
>>about 
>>(half the files cannot be stat-ed). In addition, there is the 
>>problem of 
>>non-freeing inodes on zips and floppies.
>>
>>Juan, Andrey and probably others, did a great job on patching up 
>>supermount for each release, but I do have to admit that I have not 
>>seem 
>>it working without problems in the 2.4.x series.
>>
>>So, the question is, since the default enabling of supermount is 
>>bound to
>>get people into trouble (try to install a game or whatever from 
>>CD), 
>>shouldn't there be an update ASAP for 9.0 with a 1) a fix or 2) 
>>disabled 
>>default supermount. At least it should be added to the errate page.
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>>
>>For cooker I really would like to hear (Juavolumagic:
>>http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linu
>>
>>it mounts disks in userspace, and works already for CDROM drives.
>>Is there any reason not to move to this tool for 9.1? It needs some 
>>work, 
>>but on the long therm certainly looks like a better solution than 
>>supermount.
>>
>>One problem remains that can perhaps only be fixed in the kernel: 
>>floppiesneed to sync immediatly (==performance loss) when writing, 
>>because the 
>>possibility of a manual eject on pc-hardware (this is probably a 
>>design 
>>error, MAC does it better;)
>>
>>bye,
>>Danny
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