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

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:28 PM, A.Yerenkow <yerenkow at uct.ua> wrote:

>  On 15.04.2009 15:15, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:09 PM, A.Yerenkow <yerenkow at uct.ua> wrote:
>
>>  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 :)
>>
>
> Sure, but you haven't seen a Mac OS X panic so far, right? Perhaps you
> haven't seen/used any Mac, so you are not to blame:-)
>  All I am wondering about is why it cannot happen in FreeBSD world?
>
>  You probably not aware that Apple don't cares at all of FreeBSD, and
> simple took it's code, reworked it out and keep it closed.
> So, in this OS, partially based on FreeBSD such kernel panics not happens.
> But we are talking not about Mac OS X closed-source internal things? :) We
> are talking about "why not >>>  in FreeBSD >>>>".
> This _can_ happen in FreeBSD world, we need just some patience, and wait
> for new USB-stack being completed and polished.
>

So your contention is that the USB code (usb2 to be precise) is not yet
ready on FreeBSD and that is the reason, right?


> We aren't big software company, which if wants some feature to  be
> completed in month - hired and _payed_ a lot of workers.
> FreeBSD world is volunteers world, and all software here is ready only when
> it's ready :)
>

This one I know:-)
That is why I am not throwing tantrums.


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