Re: volume:// uri support

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:13:33 +0100 Alexander Larsson wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 01:17 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: 
 
> >  volume://name=davidz%20data;uuid=1234/path/to/file.txt
> >  /media/disk/path/to/file.txt
 
> Also, I don't think this should be in libgio itself. Its really
> something that would be part of the unix desktop and not something
> that makes sense on other platforms. So, this should go into gvfs.

Not really weighing in on whether or not it should be in libgio, but I
do think this is something that could make sense on other platforms.

On win32 for example, say you have a computer with one hard drive
partition (c:) and an optical drive (d:).  You plug in a USB flash
drive, and it gets mounted as e:.  Then you remove that USB flash drive
and plug in a different USB flash drive.  It also gets mounted as e:.

Then you plug in the original USB flash drive (without removing drive
#2), and it gets mounted as f: this time.  Any normal Windows path
'remembered' by an application for this 2nd drive is now incorrect.

On Mac, you have a similar situation, though it's possible to run into
it less often.  MacOS X creates a folder under /Volumes/ based on the
drive's volume label.  You only have a problem if you have multiple
drives with the same volume label.  People who have more than one USB
flash drive from the same manufacturer who don't change the drive label
will be in trouble here, as the first drive plugged in will
be /Volumes/(LABEL), and the second will be /Volumes/(LABEL)-1 and so
on.

	-brian