Re: GVolume

[Mikael Hermansson <mike tielie gmail com>]

Hmm we need to add below to info  to the GVolume docs. So people dont
get confused :-)

Here is a patch:



> For your details, maybe we should also hide the /usr/local mountpoint...

Yep I agree on that.

/

Mikael

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 09:32 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 14:43 +0100, Mikael Hermansson wrote:
> > I tried to figure out how the GIO's GVolume[Monitor] API works.
> > 
> > It seems broken or maybe its HAL thats is buggy or maybe its me that is
> > buggy and dont understand how it should work ;-)
> > 
> > My mtab has this mountpoints: (unrelated "system /proc etc..." has been
> > removed)
> > 
> > /dev/sda7 / ext3 rw 0 0
> > /dev/sda5 /home ext3 rw 0 0
> > /dev/sda8 /usr/local ext3 rw 0 0
> > 
> > But the only that shows up in GIO is /usr/local (/dev/sda8)???
> 
> GVolumeMonitor is not an exact mapping of the unix mtab. If you want
> that there is some unix specific APIs in gio-unix.
> 
> GVolumeMonitor is for listing the "user interesting" devices and volumes
> on the computer. In other words, what a file selector or file manager
> would show in a sidebar. Now, since unix APIs for these kinds of things
> are pretty sucky its not always possible to make the correct decisions,
> but the intent is that:
> 
> GDrive - this represent a piece of hardware connected to the machine.
> Its generally only created for removable hardware or hardware with
> removable media (but then again, unix APIs here suck, so its hard to
> detect things like this). Not all volumes have a corresponding drive.
> 
> GVolume - something that can be mounted an contains a filesystem. In
> general this is a partition (although this might not be true for e.g.
> some kinds of remote volumes). volumes can be stored on a drive, or be
> stand alone. There might be several volumes on a drive.
> 
> GMount - a "mounted" filesystem that you can access. Mounted is in
> quotes because its not the same as a unix mount, it might be a gvfs
> mount, but you can still access the files on it if you use GIO. Might or
> might not be related to a volume object (you might have mounted
> something that is somehow not visible when enumerating volumes).
> 
> For unix, we never create volumes for the root of the filesystem, nor in
> places that are the standard filesystem hierarchy mountpoints
> like /home, /usr, /proc etc. These are generally part of the
> implementation of the computer and not interesting to users. I.E. they
> are always availible, not mountable/unmountable by users, and not used
> as places to store or load files (in your homedir, yes, but not
> in /home). 
> 
> For your details, maybe we should also hide the /usr/local mountpoint...
> 
>