On Aug 12, 9:08 am, Dave Koziol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why not just include a small application with Mac NTFS-3G which allows > the user to select an NTFS-3G volume and issue a "bless --device /dev/ > disk??? --legacy --setBoot" command? Make the application setuid > root, and try to draw attention to it. You could add as much > functionality to it as needed, even going to the point of building a > full replacement for the Startup Disk System Preferences if you really > needed to do that, or you could just keep it simple. > > Trying to switch the file system out from under any dependancies Apple > might have seems very dangerous. Just giving the users a way to set > the startup disk is pretty safe.
I know I'm late to the party, but this is almost exactly what I was about to post. However, I was going to suggest that you write a preference pane instead of an application -- it's not hard at all. This would probably satisfy all but the most persnickety of users. Also, I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but in Leopard you *can* get sshfs volumes to show up under "devices" in the finder sidebar. I'm assuming the same thing will work for other fuse filesystems, but I haven't tried. It's not automatic, so it probably doesn't solve the problem for newbies, but it's sufficient for me: 1. mount an sshfs volume 2. open a finder window and navigate to your computer's entry under "Devices" 3. drag the sshfs volume from there to the sidebar under "Devices" -- it sticks! 4. unmount the volume 5. remount the volume -- notice how it reappears in the sidebar Now considering that this is possible to do manually, it may also be possible to automate it somehow via Applescript or poking at Finder's config files. Cheers, -n8 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "macfuse-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to macfuse-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
