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 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
