VOLD is dead. Long live Tamarack

After a quick check of the recent ON nevada changelog, I saw that one of my pet Solaris hates "vold" has been deleted and replaced with "PSARC case 2005/399 : Tamarack: Removable Media Enhancements in Solaris". Sun THANK YOU!!!

Not only is vold gone, but you get hal, and joliet extensions thrown in to the mix. A quick download and bfu of the on-bfu-20061016 archive, and this is what it looks like to mount a DVD backup of my photographs burnt from MS Windows, and a memory stick -

root@bangkok> uname -a 
SunOS bangkok.priv 5.11 opensol-20061016 i86pc i386 i86pc
root@bangkok> df -h -F hsfs
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2      2.7G   2.7G     0K   100%    /media/Photos10042006
root@bangkok> df -h -F pcfs
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0:1    123M   173K   123M     1%    /media/MEM128

As you can see no more /vol, /cdrom, /rmdisk, just the real device name, and the /media mountpoint. Also all the filenames on the DVD are humanly readable.