Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:23:17PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 12/24/11 11:34, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 09:57:38AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: FreeBSD be default already does buffering in the VFS layer (unless you turn that off). I don't think that adding more buffering would

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:03:30PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: might render the application performing it unresponsive during that time. Bingo! Thats exactly the issue. Taking a look at FUSE I can see there are calls that FUSE_FSYNC which I would say is the closest to what is needed. The question

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:44:53PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: And yes, that will block write calls until they're truely done. You said that was slower too. A bit. But I think it is a good trade-off for filesystems on USB disks. It certainly circumvents a whole lot of problems with filesystem

Re: PolicyKit confusion - DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.Failed: An operation is already pending

2011-12-23 Thread Da Rock
On 12/23/11 16:11, Da Rock wrote: On 12/23/11 15:37, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:18:19 +1000, Da Rock wrote: I checked out /media/hal-* and I see that the mount occurs only as root. How do I change that exactly? I need it showing for operator group. I've searched high and low

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 02:18:19PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: This is doing my head in. :-) I'm trying to get my head around hal, dbus, and PolicyKit, and I've made some inroads on the basics, but I cannot get a few things happening. One: I managed to get network:/// smb shares working in

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 00:22, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 02:18:19PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: This is doing my head in. :-) I'm trying to get my head around hal, dbus, and PolicyKit, and I've made some inroads on the basics, but I cannot get a few things happening. One: I managed to get

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 01:27:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: couldn't give a shit about network drives. One scenario is network goes down and I get a screenful of error messages- it annoys the shit out of me, let alone scaring illiterate users. If the network goes down, network drives won't

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 08:03:22AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: If the network goes down, network drives won't work. Your users will be sad/scared/frustrated with or without error messages, I'm guessing. Nah. They'd flip out a whole lot more when the screen literally fills with error messages and

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 09:57:38AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: FreeBSD be default already does buffering in the VFS layer (unless you turn that off). I don't think that adding more buffering would help. It might even make matters worse. If data is buffered and not immediately written to the

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 11:34, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 09:57:38AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: FreeBSD be default already does buffering in the VFS layer (unless you turn that off). I don't think that adding more buffering would help. It might even make matters worse. If data is buffered and

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 11:34, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 09:57:38AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: FreeBSD be default already does buffering in the VFS layer (unless you turn that off). I don't think that adding more buffering would help. It might even make matters worse. If data is buffered and

PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-22 Thread Da Rock
This is doing my head in. I'm trying to get my head around hal, dbus, and PolicyKit, and I've made some inroads on the basics, but I cannot get a few things happening. One: I managed to get network:/// smb shares working in say nautilus (not that I've specifically mounted one- not a windows

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-22 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:18:19 +1000, Da Rock wrote: I checked out /media/hal-* and I see that the mount occurs only as root. How do I change that exactly? I need it showing for operator group. I've searched high and low and googled my brains out, but anything remotely related is for linux

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-22 Thread Da Rock
On 12/23/11 15:37, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:18:19 +1000, Da Rock wrote: I checked out /media/hal-* and I see that the mount occurs only as root. How do I change that exactly? I need it showing for operator group. I've searched high and low and googled my brains out, but anything