[PC-BSD Testing] Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

[A.Yerenkow]

On 15.04.2009 14:50, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow 
> has FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, 
> external drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not 
> happen on FreeBSD.
> I have seen several questions being asked on this list about this 
> feature, but the answer is neither here nor there.
> There is even a port (sysutils/automounter) that I believe is supposed 
> to help towards this, but again it's not as easy as it seems to be.
> Now my question is just one: Why should it be this difficult for 
> FreeBSD to have the automount feature within the base system?
> If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it.
>
Mount usb dev, work with it somehow ( copy there or from), and then NOT 
umounted it, remove it.
You'll probably get kernel panic and system crash. This happen in almost 
all cases.
While BSD -Stable didn't merge new USB stack, which would behave normal 
in such situation, auto-mount not good idea.
That's my IMHO :)
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> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
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