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

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 20:20 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> I discussed this already with Kay and we agree to extend the mount with fstype 
> to: Mount(string:directory, string:fstype, string:options). 
> 
> We need this at least to be able to mount with subfs, captive or fuse (e.g. 
> ntfsmount) so we work on a new version.

So tell me why exactly is this useful? Why not just use the in-kernel
ntfs driver? And why is it useful to use subfs?

Cheers,
David