fixing busybox mount/umount to work with udisks

[Natanael Copa]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Laurent Bercot
<ska-dietlibc at skarnet.org> wrote:

>  Every system administrator has a choice to make. Either he's going
> with the "mainstream" sheep, and uses "mainstream" software, or he has
> a constrained environment with specific needs.

sigh... The world is really black and white, isn't it?

Seriously, I do not like the dbus/udev/pulseaudio/CamelCaseWhateverKit
fever thats going on in Linux userspace land. I don't like the GNU
bloat. Alpine Linux gives you a base system where you have a
completely udev/freedesktop free Linux system which is a perfect base
for routers, servers, vpns, sip boxes etc. base system is less than
10MB excluding kernel and has a package manager that will make
apt-get/yum/packman/ipkg look like a turtle.

With a little extra effort we have managed to get an XFCE desktop
system on top of that. You need udev if you cannot live without xorg
inputdev hotplugging, udisks is needed for usb disks to show up in
thunar. But still, the result is an refreshingly snappy desktop -
without pulseaudio, systemd, GNU
util-linux/coreutils/find/sed/grep/awk, etc. A desktop that uses
resources effectively[1].

There are a few minor details/annoyances like umount not working 100%.
All I ask for is ideas how to work those out. And believe me: I do
*not* want bloat busybox.

[1] http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/also-not-a-joke-xfce-on-39mb/

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Natanael Copa