[Haiku-commits] r30934 - haiku/trunk/src/kits/storage/disk_device

[Axel Dörfler]

anevilyak at BerliOS <anevilyak at mail.berlios.de> wrote:
> Log:
> When we dynamically create a mount point directory, add a special
> marker subdirectory in it so the disk system knows the directory was
> not created by the user. When unmounting, look for the marker and
> remove the mountpoint directory if found. This fixes the issue where
> mount / unmount / > mounting a volume via Tracker would result in
> extra empty dirs in the rootfs.

Why wouldn't the disk device manager not know if it created a directory 
anyway?

> Ideally I'd rather solve this by being able to tag the mount points 
> with
> attributes, but this isn't currently possible since the attribute 
> overlay is
> a module and thus not available when mounting the rootfs.

The attribute overlay would be overkill here, anyway; if that attribute 
is really needed, one could make the rootfs accept a single attribute 
for this purpose easily.

Bye,
   Axel.