Re: devd limitations / automounting removable storage

From: John Baldwin (jhb_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 09/17/03

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To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>

    On 17-Sep-2003 M. Warner Losh wrote:
    > In message: <20030916232724.GG3052@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
    > Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> writes:
    >: Any objections to adding devd notifications to the CAM layer? It would
    >: allow us to automount such devices. Specifically I'm thinking that a
    >: program to change the running automounter map could be used.
    >
    > I'd make them different types of events. I'd also prototype it up to
    > see how bad things get.
    >
    > In the long term, we want CAM to be newbus.
    >
    > However, in the long term we'd also like to move away from doing
    > things to devices, and more towards doing things on the resources they
    > provide to the system. When a network interface appears, we should
    > use that event, not that a driver attached.
    >
    > The simple devd detach/attachment stuff we do now gets us a lot of
    > bang for the buck, but there are limitations.

    Maybe have GEOM send events when mountable entities show up? 

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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