Messages in this thread | | | From | "Matthew D. Pitts" <> | Subject | Re: [Cooker] (RFC) Supermount 2 | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:54:07 -0500 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: <danny@mailmij.org> To: <cooker@linux-mandrake.com> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 7:21 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] (RFC) Supermount 2
> > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Matthew D. Pitts wrote: > > > > I am starting to plan a new version of Supermount. I have some things I want to try out in it, and I will list them in this message. I am willing to accept any and all input on what I am wanting to call Supermount 2. > > Planned features of Supermount 2: > > > > 1) Auto-detection of filesystem type. > Meaning we will finally have CD-tracks visualized as WAV files? like CD-fs > does? Same goes for multisession disks.
I will try to do that, though it may mean hacking into the isofs driver.
> > 2) Supermount modules for each filesystem type. > How is this on performance (first check for fs type than loading module? > than disk is removed, unloading module and loading another one?)
I haven't gotten that far, yet. How well it works depends a lot on how much of the information about the disk can be read by Supermount 2 when the disk is inserted.
> > 3) Built-in support for packet-writing. ( i.e. insert packet-writing formatted disk and it loads appropriate kernel modules. ) > > > > There may be other features added if there is an interest in them. I will need assistance with the packet-writing support. I am only planning to do this for the 2.5.x and later kernels, so if anyone else wishes to back-port it to an older kerenl series, by all means do so. I have wanted to make some kind of contribution to this project for some time and I feel that this is something that will be useful. > > > What about doing it in userspace? I remember seeing Alan Cox writing he > had a proof of concept of something like this on some ftp server (sorry, > cannot remember where).
I am going to go over Alan's code when I have a decent machine to work with...
> > > I am going to be making my prelminary code available to whomever wishes to see it once I get my Linux box back up. > sure > > > > Danny > > > > > Matthew D. Pitts > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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