On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 13:06 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
I'm sort of confused on a couple of things....
why a mirror of the data across partitions? If we are able to mount
ntfs on a per user basis... why not find a way to use the ntfs
partition as the data location for the common data for the user in
situations where users care about cross operating system access?
We already have a system to redirect what directories are
programtically used:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs
Can't the technology here be extended to make use of an ntfs data
store without the complexity of mirroring?
A couple of problems. (and I may be wrong here)
A. ntfs-3g is slow (compared to native FS).
B. NTFS write isn't five-9's yet.
C. Missing inotify support. (At least AFAIK).
D. Lack of NTFS check disk in ntfs-3g. (No way to fix a broken FS if the
Windows boot dies)
E. Last time I checked ntfs-3g + SAMBA didn't really get along.
... Never the less, the migration tool can give the user the option to
decide which course to take: Copy-to-native or ntfs-3g-mount. (While
explaining the consequences of each choice)
Why at install time.. versus an option that can be invoked for any
user at user creation time or any later time generally though the
system-config-user dialog? Don't people have multiple users defined
commonly on home XP and Vista systems? Don't we need to be able to
configure the OS data syncing for multiple users by mapping a fedora
username to the corresponding username on the XP system?
Sounds reasonable enough.
One question though - how do you auto-resync a document, bookmarks, etc
when both ends changed?
-jef
- Gilboa