In message <Pine.GSO.4.61.0501191158420.28387@rfhpc8317>, Hubert Feyrer writes:
>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Jukka Marin wrote:
>> I would love such a thing.  Especially if the system could cope with the
>> user disconnecting the USB device / removing the removable media without
>> doing umount first.
>
>Indeed. Things this could handle:

>  * removable devices like CDs, floppies (amd?)

Removable devices, removable media, or both?  (On Windows, I can 
hot-swap the CD drive in my laptop for a battery or a floppy (if, of 
course, I had a floppy drive -- once upon a time, I did....)

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb