udisks 1.90.0

[Stef Bon]

On 01/24/2012 06:22 PM, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I spun the release on Friday but didn't get around to do the
> announcement until now, sorry. Anyway, here's the first release of
> udisks2! Not a lot to say expect that it's a complete rewrite of the
> udisks1 codebase with a more modern, intuitive and efficient D-Bus
> interface
Great,

I'm looking at the source right now.

Some questions:

a. can the udisks mount monitor also provide this information to other
apps, like dolphin and autofs.
I see that lot's of apps/programs are "interested" in mountinfo, and
poll/scan the mountinfo file for that purpose.
Isn't it better to have one prog do that (==udisks) and others get the
information  via a socket/dbus?

b. does udisks also provide information about non local mounts (cifs,
fuse etc) , so no disks?

c. I've been thinking about the ability to make the kernel export
mountinfo via netlink. Everytime the kernel mounts, a message is send
via netlink to userspace. Doesn't it make the monitoring easier??? Now
the whole mountinfo file has to be parsed, sorted and checked for changes.

Stef
>
>  http://udisks.freedesktop.org/releases/udisks-1.90.0.tar.bz2
>  http://udisks.freedesktop.org/releases/udisks-1.90.0.tar.sign
>  http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/1.90.0/
>
> See [1] for the NEWS snippet. Also, there's already some fixes +
> enhancements in git master.
>
> Two applications in GNOME are already using udisks2 - the first is a
> rewrite of the "Disk Utility", now called "Disks", the other one is
> GVfs.
>
> I will blog about udisks2, Disks and gvfs later this week so stay tuned.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> [1] :
>
> ------------
> udisks 1.90.0
> ------------
>
> The udisks project provides a daemon, tools and libraries to access
> and manipulate disks and storage devices. This is the first release of
> the new 2.x series. This release is parallel-installable with udisks
> 1.x.
>
> Thanks to all our contributors.
>
> David Zeuthen,
> Jan 20, 2012
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