Re: [Nautilus-list] nautilus always stat64() /etc/mtab

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

le mar 27-11-2001 à 17:29, Alex Larsson a écrit :
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Eric Wood wrote:
> 
> > nautilus wants to constantly monitor /etc/mtab to see if something
> > automount.  However this function keeps the hard drives spinning, battery
> > life low, and ext3 continually flushing the journals.
> > 
> > Stephen Tweddie (author of ext3) says to use some other function (I don't
> > know what it is) that does the same thing as stat64() but lets the drives
> > spin down when not really used.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> Great, except we need to know what to use instead :)

What about monitoring file using nautilus-monitor object ? 
BTW, we should also monitor /etc/fstab to detect when new mount points
are added..
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Frédéric Crozat
MandrakeSoft