[haiku] Re: Mount settings: "All BeOS Disks"

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:00:15 +0200 CEST

Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rene Gollent wrote:
> > Right now they are, as mounting/automounting is in fact currently
> > handled by Tracker. And yes it's on the list of things to 
> > eventually
> > be changed. Incidentally this is why BeOS never really let you rely 
> > on
> > anything that wasn't on /boot, since there was no mechanism to have
> > anything other than /boot mounted until after Tracker was started.
> But we can mount things with mountvolume without Tracker. And a 
> volume stays mounted after 
> killing Tracker.
> In any case, the fact that auto-mounting etc. is currently handled by 
> Tracker doesn't 
> absolve putting those settings into the Tracker preferences.

Furthermore, stippi enabled the Deskbar mount menu, also having that 
same "Mount Settings" in there. Moving this into the Tracker settings 
really doesn't make much sense in the long term.

Bye,
   Axel.


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