Update: I've been doing some tests with HAL and most have been extremely successful. All filesystems I tried (even some esoteric ones, as YAFS, cramfs, etc.) were correctly detected. UUIDs were assigned and labels read automagically and without problems. One can even set them (that point I still didn't try) with the same method of IPC calls through D-Bus, though I suppose privilege elevation is required.
One test has, however, been unsuccessful: it seems that HAL does not detect, nor, for all that matters, even care about, loop devices. This is of special importance on Wubi/Ubuntu systems, where the root partition is a loopmounted file on a NTFS volume. There are some solutions, such as merging missing data from /proc/mounts or submittng a patch to HAL itself so that it recognizes loop devices as "generic block devices" or such, but I don't find either quite satisfying. Any opinions on the HAL+DBUS approach? Am I crazy or just a mail-list stalker? ^^ Habbit _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
