Re: Having Konqueror/kDesktop displaying media volume label

On Saturday 20 April 2002 16:26, Dave Leigh wrote:
> I think this is fine for a default, but I would allow superusers to
> mount globally. The reason is that I've needed to mount disks
> (particularly CD-ROMs or ZIP disks) that will need to be accessed by
> a workgroup. You need this flexibility, *especially* in a multiuser
> environment.

OK, this is a valid point, but I think this should be addressed in a GUI 
independent fashion. In such multiuser environments, people have the 
tendecy to ssh to a machine, and there they cannot use the fancy 
ioslaves, etc. I am quite shure that such a solution could be created 
by wrapping some scripts around the automounter, and the question 
remains: What happens, if a user acceses such a directory, and the 
medium is not present? I had nightmares with NFS volumes on an 
unreachable server, and hanging processes you could not even kill, and 
we do not want to recreate that problem. 

I think the real problem is that UNIX was not build with removable media 
in mind, neiter with users that actually need hardware access. The 
whole filesystem management is centered around the system 
administrator.

Sven.
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