Re: [PATCH] gnome-vfs: Don't monitor read-only filesystems

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn ant uni-bremen de>]

George Farris wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 06:54, Alexander Larsson wrote:
>
>
> > Fixing this issue does not involve changing fam. It involves fixing the
> > applications that break unmounting by keeping monitors on directories
> > that are not actively used.
> >
> > I do *not* think its a good thing they people can't eject their cdroms.
> > However, we need to actually fix the problem, not just blame the nearest
> > app.
>
>
> Yes I realize that fixing this issue involves fixing other apps but it
> certainly would be nice, in fam, to turn off the monitoring of certain
> filesystems until the other apps get fixed. 
>
> I suppose the problem with this would be; the apps would never get
> fixed.  None of this however helps the poor newbies and people
> experimenting with Linux.
>
> How do we help them in the interim?

As a possible workaround, fam could silently ignore monitor requests for 
files on ro-mounted filesystems.

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