From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2009-02-27T06:37:29+09:00
Subject: Re: sys-filesystem interface advice



On Feb 23, 11:43 am, Daniel Berger <djber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm going to add the Filesystem.mount_point method. It will simply
> return the mount point associated with the given file.
>
> Example:
>
> Filesystem.mount_point('/home/djberge/foo.txt') # => '/home' (RHEL
> Linux)
>
> My dilemma is what I should do when I can't find an associated mount
> point. For example, the device number for '/dev' on our RHEL box at
> work doesn't match the device number of any of the mount points.
>
> Which of these options seems most appropriate?
>
> 1 - Return nil
> 2 - Return '/'
> 3 - Return itself, e.g. '/dev' would return '/dev'
> 4 - Raise an error
>
> Suggestions?

Well, since no one chimed in, I went with "returns itself".

BTW, I've released sys-filesystem 0.3.0, which now includes support
for FreeBSD and OS X. Thanks go to Nobuyoshi Miyokawa for that.

Regards,

Dan