[haiku-development] Re: read-only problems (was: Follow-up to the "Luposian bug")
- From: "Dustin Howett" <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:28:21 -0400
Could tracker add an emblem to read-only (non-CD, possibly) volumes,
like a stippi-styled lock or something?
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've overwritten it with r24841 and, running into a similar issue,
> > affecting only my data partition, found out that mounting it under
> > BeOS resolved the issue.
>
> That might or might not help, depending on how Haiku left it behind.
> Running "chkbfs" on the disk should make sure that at least the disk
> structure is healthy (more or less, Be's chkbfs isn't really very
> thorough).
>
> > I might add that read-only volumes do not seem to be accounted for in
> > Haiku's UI yet. Apart from the missing remaining-space bar I could
> > not
> > tell that the partition was mounted read-only, baron did have write
> > permissions. StyledEdit didn't complain when saving, and in Tracker
> > attempts to rename files were silently ignored.
>
> I don't have a problem with silently ignoring (as you normally know
> what volume is read-only and why), but StyledEdit should definitely
> mention it.
> I've just recently added a few more read-only checks into BFS, but I
> guess some are missing - like the permission set. Currently open()
> allows O_RDWR also on read-only volumes (like the original BFS), but I
> guess I should change that, too :-)
>
> Bye,
> Axel.
>
>
>
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- DH
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