Re: Adding new functionality to the VFS

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

If it isn't a method of storage, why exactly should you be accessing it
as if it were? And if you are accessing as if it were, why would you
want to treat it significantly different than a normal storage volume?

It seems to me that the proper way to "sync" with the device, would be
through a synchronization API like multisync or whatever it is called
now, rather than trying to make it act like a filesystem.

-- dobey


On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 01:23 +0300, Yaron Tausky wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 21:20 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > I'm unsure what problem you are trying to solve here. Is that about
> > pluggable devices which can't be mounted using mount(8) because they
> > aren't seen by the computer as an USB Mass Storage device or something
> > similar?
> 
> Exactly. A PDA is not a storage device, it's a computer. It doesn't seem
> correct, however, to refer to it as a "server" -- when it's plugged it's
> only a feet or so from the desktop. Even though it may be technically
> correct, I find it counter-intuitive (for example, the Places menu puts
> it in the servers section, rather than the volumes section).
>