Quiescent filesystems marked with EXT2_VALID_FS while still mounted?

[Matthew Kirkwood]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:

> All use of automount that I've seen so far has involved mounting the
> autofs 'filesystem' on a certain mountpoint (e.g. /homes) and letting
> automount do the submounts for you (e.g. /homes/$USER). I'm not sure
> offhand if autofs can handle just mounting a single device on a
> top-level mount (e.g. automounting the whole of /opt when it's
> accessed)

It rather sounds like you want supermount, which:

 * doesn't need an extra level of directory
 * remounts the filesystem r/o when inactive
 * has apparently been included in Mandrake 7.0 (or at least
   something with the same name)

Matthew.


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