Re: [Usability] Deep thoughts and proposal on the awful trashcan/eject

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 11:08, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> 2005/5/6, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp redhat com>:
> > > Anyway, this would be a much needed improvement for users that cannot
> > > grasp the mount concept, and a way to speed up things for those who
> > > do.
> > > ______________________________________________________________________
> > Mount should not be a concept.  Lets work on fixing this instead of
> > making bandaids.
> 
> But in wich sense making eject buttons would be "making bandaids"? Its
> simple, and IMHO elegant (ok, maybe I'm on crack, but bear with me).
> 
> About your assertion "Mount should not be a concept": I totally agree
> that we should not expose the inner workings of the OS without a good
> reason. But I'm failing to see how this can be made in a non-crack-ish
> way.
> 
> It makes me remember that "supermount" patch to the kernel, that
> Mandrake used to ship, but I don't think that's a good idea overall
> (buggy, slow and a security issue).
> 
> Mount works well and reliably. How we can get rid of this "concept"
> for the ordinary user so he doesn't have to bother with it? If you
> care to elaborate on this (given you have time for doing so), I would
> love to hear.

By creating a transactional proxy file system for removable devices. 
Basically writes go to a cache, if you pop the disk before the cache is
empty it screams at you to put the device back in so it can finish.  No
loss of data and you can pull a device whenever you wish

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J5