[haiku-development] Re: [gsoc2011] New File System

On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:07:19 +0100 Adrien Destugues 
<pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > No, and I don't think that would even be desirable. If you'd like it to
> work
> > as in Windows, the MIME type should be associated with an application
> that
> > mounts the zip file and opens the mount point in Tracker. If you also
> want
> > to have the path look natural in navigator mode, a bit of explicit
> support
> > in Tracker is needed. E.g. the mount point could be actually created in
> the
> > directory (with an obvious name like "<zipname>-mounted"), but hidden by
> > Tracker. That obviously doesn't work on read-only volumes, though and
> has
> > the drawback of actually creating directories, which will be left over
> when
> > not unmounted and removed. So it's probably better to leave the mount
> point
> > in rootfs and rather fake navigation in Tracker. For an even more
> natural
> > integration kernel support would be needed, I guess.
> >
> I don't know if if works in Haiku, but mingw allows to mount volumes in 
> non-existing directoies. This makes them invisible unless you explicitly 
> ask for them (cd to it for example).

No, such a thing is not possible in Haiku ATM. Hence my last sentence.

CU, Ingo

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