David Sheldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:11:28AM -0500, Nick Berardi wrote: >> I guess logical drives in Linux is just the root. But I would think that >> they would include the mount points in here? Don't you think? Because >> basically that is all that a Windows Drive is. A mounted partition. >> >> Anybody on the list disagree? > > I disagree. The call is get*Logical*Drives. Linux only has a single > logical drive, though it is made up of several physical drives mounted > into it. If you enumerate /, /cdrom, /floppy, /mnt/moredisk, > /mnt/moredisk/someNFSserver then you will end up with applications double > counting files and generally recursing over more then they need to in > order to find a file.
Indeed. What is the definition of a propspective "mountpoint" anyway? Things in /mnt? Things like /{floppy,cdrom}? Things declared with `noauto' in /etc/fstab? What about LVM mountpoints? Or things that *are* actually mounted but that *aren't* generally transient in nature - /, /usr, /var, /home, whatever else people tend to peel-off? There's a case to be made for most of the above, I think - but I would only go with / as the most portable, myself. ~Tim -- Product Development Consultant OpenLink Software Tel: +44 (0) 20 8681 7701 Web: <http://www.openlinksw.com> Universal Data Access & Data Integration Technology Providers _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list