Re: gmc/libvfs suggestion for removable media

["Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

About the only way in which I could see Gnome helping with these issues
is if someone were to write a nifty automount configuration utility for
Gnome.  Actually, this kind of thing could be quite useful, as I have
yet to see a distribution that seemed to use these tools without
hand-tweaking.

Daniel Burrows wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 09:57:16PM -0500, Jesse D. Sightler was heard to say:
> > Simple, it doesn't allow you to eject the disk with anything other than
> > software, or a small pointed object.  :)  This stuff should only be a
> > major problem for drives that don't have intelligent electronic disk
> > ejection systems.  Unfortunately floppies on PCs, and I believe ZIP
> > drives are both guilty of having mechanical eject buttons.  LS-120s, CDs
> > and Mac disk drives are all generally smart enough not to allow ejection
> > if they are already mounted by the kernel (unless, of course, you use
> > the manual override).
> >
> > Anyway, the point is that this is not a GNOME issue, and is therefore
> > irrelevant to this list.  :)
> >
> 
>   Hmm.  Ok.  I'm still not entirely convinced that Gnome couldn't at least
> help with the current mess, but I'll bow to popular opinion and shut myself
> up (for now :-) ).  There are more important issues to deal with at the moment
> anyway..

-- 
---------------
Jesse D. Sightler
http://www3.pair.com/jsight/

"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead." 
      - Chinese Proverb