> > Is there any possibility of making Linux handle file systems on
> > floppies like MSDOS, so that there is no need to explicitly mount and
> > unmount a floppy drive in order to access floppies through the file
> > system?
> Currently the best approximation is automount.
Actually, Stephen Tweedie had a nice toy for 2.0 (and
I believe that the Mandrake people have ported it to
2.2) called "Supermount".
It works like an automount derivate, but (this from
memory, so may be slightly incorrect):
* doesn't need an extra level of mountpoints
* doesn't consider the filesystem busy if it's only
used by pwd
* syncs the filesystem when the last file is closed
I don't know about the last bits, but the first two
match very closely yuor union-mount scheme, as I see
it.
Matthew.
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