Re: Floppy disk auto-mounting [was: Re: Volume handling proposal]

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 17:56, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > This sounds good. I'd also suggest always showing the Floppy Disk Icon (as 
> > oppose to only in Computer) on the desktop as well, for systems that still 
> > have them. I recommend this mainly due to the sad fact that on pc's we can't 
> > autodetect floppies, but we still want the floppy folder to be very easily 
> > accessible and not hidden in a subfolder. 
> > 
> 
> Isn't it possible to have a daemon trying to mount the floppy every -
> say - 3 seconds ? What would be the drawbacks of such a solution ?

A constant ticking from your computer i guess.

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