Re: [Nautilus-list] drive icons

[Mats Loman <mats loman home se>]

On 26 Nov 2000, Mathieu Lacage wrote:

> Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas Mailhot email enst fr> writes:
> 
> > Le dim, 26 nov 2000 21:22:21, Kai Lahmann a écrit :
> > > Hi all,
> > > As I heared on IRC, there is a hot discussion, how the
> > > mounting of
> > > removable media should be handled. Corrently you can use 1
> > > floppy
> > > (/dev/fd0) and 1 cdrom (/dev/cdrom), as is looks here
> > 
> > I'd say just use devfd new /dev tree.
> > 
> > It has a nice hierachy (like /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
> > /dev/cdroms/cdrom1, etc...) which always reflects what
> > kernel modules are loaded.
> > 
> > No need to add ugly fstab hacks, the problem has been solved
> > at the kernel level in 2.4 (coming real soon now)
> 
> This sounds like an evil linux-only solution.
> Gnome and thus Nautilus are UNIX applications, not Linux ones.
> And no, I am sorry, I have no solution to offer :(
> I am just complaining :)
> 
> salut nicolas au fait :) (lacage enst fr)
> 
> Mathieu
> 

My suggestion is to use devfs on linux ( if available ) and othervise the
fstab hack. I mean you can put device detection in a platform specefic
libarary that could be implemented differently on different platforms..

//Mats