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Re: Supermount
Hi
Ira Abramov wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Jan 100, Yedidya Bar-david wrote:
>
> > Do you know what version is shipped with mandrake?
>
> nope. the man page is from Dec 1999, the perl script "supermount" is
> copyright mandrake with no version and
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/fs/supermount/super.c says nothing special
> either. maybe it IS still 0.6.
For those interested: it is from
<http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/8144/supermount.html>
(You can't imagine how much I worked to find that out - almost an hour.
I lynxed www.mandrake.com after seeing there is no ftp, searched for
supermount only to find out it's announcements, then decided to load
their kernel SRPM and see - it's 16MB, so I didn't want to take it home,
on a 28.8, so I dned it to /tmp of some server in math.tau (at 15kB/s,
not bad). Then I had to open it. I never opened an RPM before, that is,
without rpm itself, and it was not a linux machine. So I looked at the
docs to see it has some garbage and then a gzipped cpio archive.
I really love debian! .deb is an ar(1) with 3 files exactly:
debian-binary, control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz. It's trivial to open on
any unix.
Well, I spent the next few (too many) minutes to see how a gzip file
begins, then did od | grep to find where it starts, dd with skip
to get the gzip (correctly) opened, and then to see the result isn't
a real cpio (probably another header or something). At this point I
didn't bother - I just did less(1) and searched supermount to find
a (not accurate) URL. Sorry for all this bu*it, but I think debian
uses the best approach - not taking the risk that someone accidentally
will open a package at / like slackware did, still using only standard
stuff. It didn't start this way - they too started with nonstandard
text headers, but moved to ar since before 1.0).
>
> > BTW, there is vold (at least on debian) and autofs (in the regular 2.2)
> > (and the BSD amd, of course, also on debian)
>
> > Anyone used any of them? positive or negative comments?
>
> amd and autofs are supposed to be sort of filling the same niche, but
> each has features the other doesn't. vold I never heard of. amd and
> autofs run as daemons with seperate incompatible config files (in amd's
> case a very cryptic one!) and supermount is an elegant kernel patch
> fitting right into the fstab. exquisite.
>
> --
> Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast
>
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