Automounting USB sticks - questions

[Vince Hoffman]

Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> I got this working quite easily with the amd daemon.
> Thanks to Alfred for your excellent work on this.  I wonder what the 
> status of autofs is?
> 
> It would be great if we could ship FreeBSD out of the box, ready to 
> automount removable media. This would be useful to all users, but 
> particularly for novices and people who just wanna get on and use the 
> beast.
> 
> Since the move to /media for a place to put removable mount points I'd 
> imagine all of this gets a lot easier.
> 
> However I can understand there are real issues with this:
> 
> * /etc/amd.conf. We don't ship one in /etc by default. Maybe we should?
> 
Speaking as someone who's never looked at amd before last week, this 
would be great, or at least in /usr/share/examples/etc.

> * /etc/amd.map. We ship one which contains defaults and nothing more. 
> Perhaps commented out examples?
> 
Again I'd find that helpful. I spent 5 or 10 minutes looking into 
setting up amd (Hardly indepth I know) and gave up because at the moment 
its easier to manually mount my devices ;)

> * There doesn't appear to be a tool to tell amd about new maps at 
> runtime. Is there such a beast?
>   UPDATE: I just read code, and it seems SIGHUP can be sent, but this 
> isn't in the man page and I haven't tried it.
> 
> * devd doesn't have any hooks into GEOM, which makes it difficult to 
> generate mount lines without retroactively parsing dmesg output. devd as 
> I understand it sits on top of NEWBUS.
>    Is there any way I can get a list of the disk devices, from userland, 
> in the default install, which correspond to a given NEWBUS device?
> 
> * I wonder if there's any way we can get a notification about media 
> being inserted into a CDROM drive, without polling it?
> 

> I had a brief discussion online with phk@ about doing dynamic mounts, 
> and it seems that there are still problems dealing with blowing away 
> mounts when the device goes away.
> 
> 
> 
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