[Haiku-commits] r29584 - haiku/trunk/src/kits/tracker

[Stephan Aßmus]

Bruno Albuquerque schrieb:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:57:46 +0100, axeld at BerliOS said:
> 
>> * Added support for automatic mount on media change. Not yet tested, 
>> though,
>>   and probably only works for CDs as is (ie. not for USB sticks).
> 
> BTW, I think we should remove from Tracker the responsibility of 
> mounting volumes (other than the boot one) and change it to something 
> that can be called a lot earlier in the boot process.
> 
> Right now you can nopt, for example, hame the home dir in a different 
> partition without doing hacks (I had this configuration to make 
> updating Haiku easier while keeping all my settings. When we go 
> multiuser, things will get even weirder as, at least at first look, 
> Ytacker would not be started until someone logged in so the non-boot 
> partitions would not be available.
> 
> As a side effect, I guess "Mount settings" should be separated from 
> Tracker and put in a preflet by itself.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.

Yes, makes sense to put this into another application/server. BTW, did 
you modify your BootScript to mount your non-boot partition with the 
home folder and then made sure the boot partition contained the correct 
link (before starting any servers that read settings)? Or was this more 
complicated? I may adopt this scheme, since I am re-configuring my 
system a bit too often. :-)

Best regards,
-Stephan