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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 04:43:47PM +0000, Christof Lange wrote:
> 
> automatic mounting. I wonder whether scripts of this kind have not 
> been written by others some 10 years ago? Is there a location for 
> this stuff on the web? 

I think the problems you're seeing in dealing with USB devices were 
specifically in mind 
with the development of udev, and before that, of devfs. All previous ways of 
dealing with 
hotplugging of USB (and other block) devices were really ugly kludges. The 
development of a 
dynamic file system and associated auto-creation of nodes and mount points 
was meant to be a 
more elegant solution. Of course udev and devfs were also meant to clean up 
the /dev 
directory, which was getting cluttered with more and more device names, over 
95% of which 
were never even in use in any given system. But dealing dynamically with 
block devices was 
also a major concern, so far as I understand. Maybe by looking into the 
histories of devfs 
and udev you'll find out how these things were dealt with a decade ago?

James