RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

[Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Martin-Eric Racine [SMTP:q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi]
> Sent:	Friday, August 06, 1999 11:03 AM
> To:	Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no
> Cc:	mint@fishpool.com
> Subject:	RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
> 
> There is already one for Rename, but then it means one has to 
> reboot every time there is a change in the mounting scheme.
> 
You can only rename mounted filesystems, not move them. But I can't see any
good reason why this can be done only at boot-time, u:\ is a filesystem too
so it's only natural that it support rename. TOS has been able to move
directories with Frename() since 1.04 (IIRC), if this was supported by U:
you could easily move mountpoints with the desktop if you want to...

I guess implementing this properly would take a lot of work though, although
I believe a crude scheme could be implemented rather quickly: Just keep a
table of all mountpoints, compare all paths to these and redirect (by simply
removing the "mountpoint-prefix") to the appropriate filesystem. I believe
the hack in older minixfs did something like this. I doubt that such a
scheme would be very stable or efficient though.

> > "True" unix-mounting (which is what fstab is used for) means dealing
> with
> > devices, something the user (or admin for that matter) never should have
> to
> > worry about.
> 
> One point of vue, which I don't share, but well.... ;-)
> 
Well, if MiNT should use "proper" unix-mounting it means that it can't
automount anymore - it could only mount the boot-partition and then leave
everything else up to the user. Now tell that to someone who's just running
MiNT+N.AES and no fancy unix-stuff... Done your way it means running init, a
shell-interpreter and various boot-scripts, and for what?? The average
*user* (not hacker, and yes - there are quite a few MiNT-*users*) will just
find this complex, hostile and totally unnecessary.

Jo Even Skarstein