Artem Kachitchkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> > As cringe worthy as it sounds - how about an ncurses dialogue that
> > appears on the screen when the cd is inserted, requesting the end user,
> > on detection of a hybrid cd/storage, as to which file system driver to
> > use?
>
> That's pretty much the first of the two options I suggestion earlier:
>
> > One fix would be to treat these in the same fashion we treat hybrid 
> > data+audio media, i.e. pop a dialog asking for user's preference. A 
> > simpler but less generic fix would be in HAL: if libfstyp returns hsfs, 
> > call it again to check for udfs.
>
> The difference it cost. The first option requires changes in the HAL 
> specification (to remove one fs per block device assumption), HAL code 
> and gnome-volume-manager code. A few weeks of work. The second option is 
>   about 10 lines of code in HAL.

But the second approach is based on the wrong asumption that UDF is always the 
best choice.

Jörg

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