Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 10:26:54 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Subject: supermount (was Re: Floppy handling) Alan Cox wrote: > > Is there any possibility of making Linux handle file systems on > > floppies like MSDOS, so that there is no need to explicitly mount and > > unmount a floppy drive in order to access floppies through the file > > system? > There is a thing called 'supermount'. It needs more hands to port it to 2.3.x > and it needs a very good review of the code to fix remaining questionable > habits (or rewriting as a stackable fs). The stuff needed is out there however Porting supermount from 2.0.x to 2.2.x was a cosource.com project, undertaken by Alexis Milhailov. He also ported it to 2.3.x. Unfortunately the web page where supermount is supposed to be located doesn't resolve (http://supermount.cornpops.cx/) I uploaded the latest I have, against 2.3.99-pre5, at http://gtf.org/garzik/kernel/files/supermount-0.3.1-2.3.99-pre5.diff.gz It definitely needs review, especially by the original SuperMount author (sct?) Al Viro looked at one version of the patch and worried about races. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Liberty is always dangerous, but Building 1024 | it is the safest thing we have. MandrakeSoft, Inc. | -- Harry Emerson Fosdick - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/