[HECnet] Re: Mounting devices with DAP?

Thinking a moment further, I should perhaps expand a bit on this... So, mounting of tapes are always non-shared (for obvious reasons). So, if someone mounts a tape, anyone else trying to do anything with that device is just going to be hanging until the first user is finished with the tape and dismounts it. Disks on the other hand can be mounted shared. However, unless mounted public, each user needs to mount the disk in order to access it. (So yes, a disk can be mounted multiple times, by multiple users/sessions.) Now, mounting is actually associated with a logged in session (or more specifically a terminal). If you mount something, it remains mounted until you explicitly dismount it, or you log out, at which point it is forcibly dismounted. This is basically incompatible with how DAP works, where you basically access a file for the duration of that connection. And one connection usually means open a file, do various operations, and then close the file. So if you copy two files from one system to another, it is two independent sessions as far as DAP is concerned. So there is no way to access content on a not-mounted device via DAP. How would that work? If you were to be able to request a mount, it would be associated with a logged in session, but in this case that don't exist (unless we talk about the session on the remote system). So if you were to mount, at the end of the mount request, there would be an implicit forced dismount again. If the next thing you wanted to do was to copy something from the mounted device, it would already have been dismounted again, and content would no longer be accessible. Basically, in RSX, you are only able to access content on publicly mounted devices for this reason. Johnny On 2023-04-16 02:01, Johnny Billquist wrote: -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt(a)softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol