From owner-mint@fishpool.com Mon Apr 14 22:18:27 2003 To: mint@fishpool.com Subject: [MiNT] About Standas idea Date: 14 Apr 2003 22:07:44 From: "Adam Klobukowski" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Marijuana Mail 0.1.67n [pl] (Atari Falcon 030; TOS 4.04 & MiNT / NVDI 5.01) Message-Id: <20030414200657.C50FF188FD@core.preferuje.luzik.pl> Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: atari@gabo.pl Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: (sorry, I lost original Standa e-mail message, so I cannot reply it) The idea seems to be fine for me, but I think it may be a bit enchanced. Why not add flexbile mounting points? Ie. by deafault kernel will mount all drives u:/somewhere/ So we could have: u:/somewhere/a, u:/somewhee/b and so on... (symlinks to U:/a U:/b should be made by kernel on bootup automagically to - it is important not to confues users) And here comes the main thing: For some special drives/devices (defined in MINT.CNF for example) we could have other mounting point, ie: u:/somewhere_else/c, u:/even_else/d, u:/even/combinated/e So by defauld kernel would map all drives to u:/gemdos (and make symlinks to u:/), and if user wants (defines in kernel) it kernel would map it somewhere else... This is as flexible as I can imagine, and I think, fully backward compatibile... Final note: changing mount point, mount/unmounti on the fly, remount as read-only or read-write, remount/mount with special user rights (real needo for FAT -style filesystems) should be implemented too. -- Semper Fidelis Adam Klobukowski atari@gabo.pl