On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. As I suggested before, make it like firstboot -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
