Re: [fuse-devel] Avoid preview of files on icons

[Daniel G. C. <fla...@gm...>]

Thanks for the answer Stef. And using fsname or subtype options wouldn't be
possible to persuade Nautilus that
the mount is remote?

Best regards,

Daniel

2010/2/4 Stef Bon <st...@gm...>

> You ask if there is an option for the fuse module/fs will recognize it
> as other than local..
> Well no. It's the taks of the application (here nautlius) to detect
> mountpoints etc.
>
> I've had some trouble with strigi, the indexer/find utility of KDE and
> filelight. They did not recognize the filesystem
> I've developed, which makes several resources, local (USB) and remote
> (SMB,FTO,SSH) available in
> a neat browseable map in the homedirectory. Strigi and filelight just
> entered the mountpoint, and the only possibility to prevent this, was
> to enter the directory to be excluded from search/index.
>
> Simular, applications like dolphin look for a .directory file. My fuse
> fs makes use of the automounter to do the actual mounting, and mirrors
> the mounted directories in the users homedirectory.
> It's no problem when Dolphin or simular looks for .directory file in
> the mounted directory, or in the directories managed by fuse, but it
> is on the interface. A lookup of this file will make the entire remote
> dir
> to be mounted, which is not what I wanted. I decided to make my fuse
> fs present a predefined
> .directory file when a request for this file is recieved, and its just
> under the mountpoint.
>
> This works, but this was not so hard to implement.
>
> It will be harder to do so for every kind of file on the mounted dir.
>
> Stef Bon
>
> 2010/2/4 Daniel Garci­a Coego <fla...@gm...>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Nautilus sees the mountpoint fuse creates as local, so when you enter a
> > directory it does opens and reads to show a preview of the file on the
> > icon, and this behaviour is not desirable for me (i'm implementing a
> > network file system). Is there some option/flag so Nautilus (or file
> > managers in general) recognize the mount point as not local to avoid
> this?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> >
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