Jeff Spaleta wrote:
2008/4/1 nikhil bharadwaj <nikhil.bbharadwaj@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:nikhil.bbharadwaj@xxxxxxxxx>>:
I have an idea of importing all the Windows documents,files,etc.
into the Fedora partition during the installation. Also,
maintaining a sync of all the files in both the OS's.
A detailed overview and concept of the idea is in the given link:
http://nikhilbharadwaj.wordpress.com/fedora-project-soc-2008/
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?
Then we have the victory issue. "Hey, Fedora is great! Now I want to get
rid of my Windows partition." Solvable but not free of charge. This does
save the actual time cost of mirroring though, which is significant
considering that if the user is frequently switching we have to check
for updates to the windows side at every login.
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?
I think this is/has been proposed here, but it is a good idea to begin
offering the feature at install time, as well as make it continuously
available post-install.
--CJD
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