supermount

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:08:07PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 20:11 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> > in other words, here's another possible tiny variation on the same
> > fstab-sync theme: another possible format for fstab-sync to understand,
> > but exactly the same semantics / handling.
> > 
> > ... is it _really_ worth the extra binary? (fstab-sync-supermount)
> 
> No, no, no.  The entire purpose of HAL and fstab-sync is not to use crap
> like supermount.
 
 ha ha *lol*.

> Please. ;)
 
 hello robert,
 
 sadly, but... i don't know if you've been following the HAL-list
 last month but there's a bug in the 2.6 kernel which makes it
 impossible to use HAL + fstab-sync unmodified.

 lemeesee...  yeh, here we go:

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=273055

 i even wrote a little 5-line c program (using opendir) which you can
 easily use to demonstrate and reproduce the problem.

 the workaround is to, after ripping out the drive [without unmounting
 it],  close all applications that used that mountpoint, reinsert the
 media, remove it again, reinsert it AGAIN and then and only then can
 you expect applications to be able to access the media.

 ... alternatively, you can use fuse plus the example fusexmp program
 (see http://advogato.org/articles/800.html).

 and yes, that approach _does_ actually work but i'm investigating
 supermount as an alternative.

 _yet another_ workaround is to switch off all directory notification in
 KDE (or its equivalent in Gnome) and also to not use FAM.

 l.

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