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On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Jochen Schalanda wrote: |
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> From: Jochen Schalanda <Jochen@×××××××××.de> |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, |
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> submount... which is best for Gentoo? |
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> Newsgroups: linux.gentoo.user |
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> On 10/13/2004 11:10 PM, Felix Tiede wrote: |
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>> submount is supposed to supersede supermount as supermount is running |
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> in |
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>> kernel-space, while submount is a user-space-tool. |
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> I think that is not quite correct. submount is a kernel module, hence it runs |
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> in kernel space. A userspace solution for automounting would be |
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> dbus+hal+ivman or gnome-volume-manager. |
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> I tried supermount, submount, and dbus+hal+ivman and at the moment I like |
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> submount best since it perfectly fits my needs. But as already said, all the |
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> programs (automount, supermount, submount, ivman) have a slightly different |
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> featureset, so one should really try them all and decide afterwards which one |
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> to choose. |
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> Jochen |
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Very informative, thanks. I think I'll go with submount. |
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-Thufir |
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