Re: fonts, autofs and things

["S. Lockwood" <sjl@chaucer.ece.ucsb.edu>]

> 
> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, JF Martinez wrote:
> 
> > That is the thing I had forgotten when telling about what I did today:
> > I made an autofs who works out of the box!  :-) Except I mount it on
> > /misc/floppy and /misc/cdrom.  Having people mounting by hand is
> 
> Cool. We should probably also have links 
> /cdrom->/misc/cdrom
> /floppy -> /misc/floppy
> 
Definitely, otherwise it seems kind of weird working with directories 
which don't exist until you ask for them...

What kind of timeout did you choose for floppies under autofs?
I am concerned that people could lose their changes to a floppy or even 
corrupt a floppy filesystem by pulling a floppy out before it got automatically
unmounted; I read in the docs that you are still supposed to wait for it to 
be unmounted, because autofs does not disable whatever caching that makes
umount necessary to begin with.


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