HAL methods at storage device level, to mount/unmount/eject volumes

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 08:38:11 PST 2005


On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 16:49 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> HAL volume method interface to request privileged operations like mount, umount, eject
> 
> Every storage device which contains a recognized filesystem exposes the
> methods, which can be invoked over the usual HAL D-BUS interface:
>   Mount(string:path, string:options)
>   UnMount()
>   Eject()

Yay! I've been thinking about this ever since the luks stuff went in,
just never got round to doing it... It's much cleaner this way.

Richard.



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