FreeLists / openbeosstorage / [openbeosstorage] Re: ISO9660/cdrom progress

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tyler Dauwalder <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Something like this, yes - I think it would be enough flag the main
> > sessions on the disk, so that Tracker only shows those. Optionally, 
> > it
> > should be able to show all sessions on the disk, though (not
> > necessarily the correct tree, that would be overkill).
> I don't know; I for one would be thoroughly impressed by an OS that=3D
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> charted out the proper inheritance tree for a complex multi-session=3D
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> disc. I think it would at least be nice to know the proper ordering=3D
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Okay, me too :-)

> that leads up to each leaf session, but once we know that, I doubt 
> it's=3D20
> much more (if any) work to know the whole tree.=3D20
> 
> For Tracker then, we could maybe have something along the lines of a=3D
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> "session chooser" item in pop up menus for volumes existing on=3D20
> multi-session media that opens up a window showing the session=3D20
> inheritance tree, allowing you to mount and unmount sessions at will. 
> I=3D20
> think that sort of interface would make CD backups a lot more useful=3D
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> (providing an easily accessible, almost CVS-like backup history).

Yes, it probably makes the session chooser a lot more useful this 
way... but how would you provide that feature=3F Have a parent session 
field somewhere, and flag the sessions which doesn't have any children 
(since they are the main sessions)=3F

Adios...
   Axel.