Re: Some thoughts on hiding the file system, (and an OS X anecdote)

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Llu, 2004-12-13 at 17:14, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 07:07 -0500, Carl Worth wrote:
> 
> > Here's an actual experience that occurred last night. My wife
> > (non-"technical" user of OS X), was burning a CD of photos for my
> > sister. I had some of the photos she wanted on my (Linux) laptop so I
> > (being the nefarious shell-user of this thread) did the following:
> > 
> > 	rsync -avz photos herlaptop:/tmp
> 
> I would suggest this was the wrong approach; why not just use gnome-
> user-share?  I believe the share will appear in MacOS X.

And vanish mysteriously when the machines are not networked. Trying to
compare rsync and gnome-user-share is a bit "odd".