[Server-devel] XS automount design

[Martin Langhoff]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Douglas Bagnall<douglas at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Martin wrote:
>
>>  - we don't have any scripts that write, but we will likely do, so
>> mounting ro is not a good idea
>
> I'm pretty sure the xs-otp scripts write to the usb drive, if you have
> that enabled.  Not that anyone does that, or we'd have seen a stream of
> queries about servers that are very hard to log into.

True. I had forgotten - thanks!

The other thing that bothers me is that unmounting it automatically
makes a mess for anyone working interactively with USB sticks from the
commandline.

Remounting it RO at least leaves the mountpoint in place, and it's
relatively easy and clear what to do.

cheers,



m
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