Re: Floppy disk access in Gnome - followup.

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 30Oct2001 06:20PM (-0800), Ian McKellar wrote:
> On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 03:34, George Farris wrote:
> > 
> > (2)
> > The next comment was that "You don't have to mount floppies - just use
> > tar with the raw device (/dev/rfloppy or whatever)."
> 
> My personally preferred insane solution is to write a FAT gnome-vfs
> module that knows how to access floppy devices directly. This is a
> similar thing to what we do for Audio CD access in GnomeVFS/Nautilus.
> This won't work with non-GNOME programs, but I don't really care about
> them :)

I think we shouldn't go too far overboard implementing filesystems in
user space.

 - Maciej