Re: Thinking about GtkFileSystem

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

Michael Meeks wrote:
> > - Listing the roots of a multi-rooted filesystem. 
>
>
> 	I'm slightly confused by the multi-rooted nature of all this, what
> particular application is that for ?

You'd never be able to have the win32 port (which I think is the only port 
to a multirooted system right now) nicely interact with removable devices 
otherwise - well, no its worse, as the network mounts can essentialy arrive 
(be mapped) at any time aswell.

> > For remote network filesystems, incremental filling of 
> > directories is interesting. Hopefully we can simply use the
> > change-notification mechanism to accomplish this. 
> > Considerations:
> >
> > - It means that we can only do incremental filling for
> >   directories that are currently being monitored.
>
>
> 	What is the purpose of monitoring, and/or how will the user be shown
> that loading is underway / completed  vs. eg. FAM monitoring changes ?
> or am I confused ?

I think my question/worry would really be - what happens if you have an NFS 
mounted directory with several thousands of files, esp for people who still 
have only NFS2 (like lots of linux users). Or for that matter, a directory 
with several hundred mount points in it (not uncommon for automounted /home 
on sunrays and shell servers) and similar.

> 	HTH,
>
> 		Michael.



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