[TAG] Article Ideas

[John Karns]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Thomas Adam so eloquently said:

> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:57:31 -0500 (COT)
> John Karns <jkarns at etb.net.co> wrote:
> 
> > Not sure of it falls under the category Jimmy mentioned, but there was
> > a pkg called "supermount" which I've seen in some versions of Mandrake
> 
> supermount is _evil_... _evil_. It acts like windows would by polling
> the drive continuously to see if the CD has changed or not. I strongly
> suggest you avoid it, and use autofs.

I do seem to remember having read some posts saying similarly negative 
things about supermount.  I used autofs, with a specified timeout of 15 or 
30 seconds.  It worked well, and even responded to samba mount requests.

--  
John Karns