Wouldn't it be a large improvement if supermount was add to kernel 2.6 so people won't have to mount anymore

[Kristof vansant]

Supermount is a pseudo-filesystem which manages filesystems on removable
media like floppy disks and CD-ROMs. It frees you from need to manually
mount and unmount media.

With supermount, you can change the disk in the drive whenever you want
(with the obvious exception that you shouldn't do it when the filesystem
is actively in use). You don't need to "cd" out of the directory first,
and you don't need to tell the kernel what you're doing --- supermount
will detect the media change automatically. 

Supermount will automatically detect whether the media you are mounting
is read-write or readonly, and if you mount a write-protected disk, then
the subfs will be mounted as a readonly filesystem. 

Supermount detects when you have finished activity on the subfs, and
will flush all buffers to the disk before completing the operation. So,
if you copy a file onto a supermounted floppy disk, the data will all be
written to disk before the "cp" command finishes. When the command does
complete, it will be safe to remove the disk. 


http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/

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lupus  (Kristof Vansant Belgium)