Re: libgpod itdb_device_get_storage_info

On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 13:24 -0400, Adam Lewis wrote:
> I would like to lift this function into the public API as well as
> submit a bugfix for properly detecting free space and capacity on
> gvfs-fuse mounted devices. Basically the current mechanism of calling
> statvfs does not work for devices mounted this way (iphone in ubuntu
> 10.10 mounts this way). The reason I would like to lift this function
> into the public API is so that other applications depending on libgpod
> can have a more reliable way of accessing device capacity and free
> space that works. Currently gpodder uses statvfs as well, which leads
> to it thinking the device has no free space.
> 
> Let me know if this seems like I'm heading in the right direction as
> I'm not that familiar with libgpod. The patch will essentially forward
> to a glib file function that properly handles gvfs-fuse mounted
> filesystems.

Given that libgpod has historically been quite reticent to using gvfs,
you might want to look at adding statvfs support to gvfs-fuse instead,
which would "fix" support for more than just the AFC backend.


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