Re: Brutal Deluxe's MountIt will soon go 1.2

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 8 sep, 05:34, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
> On 5 sep, 04:17, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
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> > On 5 sep, 02:27, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
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> > > On Sep 4, 8:09 pm, Sheppy <the.she...@gmail.com> wrote:> On Sep 4, 4:24 pm, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
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> > > > > Hi All,
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> > > > > Now that I have a 1.2 version of MountIt with removable devices and
> > > > > other bugs removed (yep, there were), I was wondering whether I would
> > > > > remove the ability to mount the same disk image twice (ie. I compare
> > > > > the pathnames)
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> > > > > - Do you want me to keep the check and prevent you from loading the
> > > > > same image twice or shall I remove the check?
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> > > > Don't remove the check; there are too many risks involved when
> > > > mounting the same image twice, unless they're mounted read-only and
> > > > don't let you write the changes back.
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> > > Once it's virtualized on the GS, it's not written back to anything...
> > > it's all in memory.  And GSOS wouldn't let you mount two disks named
> > > the same - it would make you rename (or eject) one of them.
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> > You are both right and that is what is happening: GS/OS asks you to
> > rename the second device.
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> > The problem here is that both images share the same GS/OS pathname. If
> > you update them by writing their data back to disk (I recall I do that
> > backwards: latest mounted to first mounted thus allowing images within
> > images updates), then you may lose a lot of information...
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> > If I mount the second image in a read only mode, then it cannot be
> > renamed then you will have to eject it, the pathname check is of no
> > use...
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> > That is why I ask and I still don't have a clue for that one,
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> > antoine
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> Let's say we are in 1.1.9999999999:
> - disk images are now removable
> - up to 16 disk images can be mounted
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> I still have an annoying bug. That is a human bug due to my
> understanding and handling of the "mount disk" and "disk switch" bits
> and behaviour. Pfou.. I am sure I am at 3 bytes to the end...
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> A good old sheet of paper, a pencil and everything will be better in
> our beautiful "swine flu" world.
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> Atchoum,
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> Antoine

The annoying feature/bug is now squashed, let's deal with the
p8_to_gsos switch and it will become version 1.2.

You know, when you RTFM, everything is going well and bit 3 of a DIB's
characteristics word may be set ;-)

antoine