Re: webcam viewer?

On 4/1/2024 11:32 AM, Jeroen Belleman wrote:

The directory *contains* a mountpoint?  Or, *is* a mountpoint?
I.e., in the former case, only the mountpoint references an exported
filesystem.  In the latter, everything in the directory is external.

 It's not NFS. The problem manifests itself in both openafs and sshfs.
It's the GUI file dialogs that ask for far more information than they
really need. It's vexing, because those same dialogs also tend to hide
information that I *do* need. (Where did it put my files??)

Perhaps they are collecting data to show you the "size" of the hierarchy
below a particular subdirectory -- and just not displaying it (due to some
option you have disabled).  (I think MacOS had a feature like that... made
directory listings slow as it drilled down to all terminal leafs from the
current folder -- especially in the days of slower media).

As I said, I avoid directories with active mount points in them when
using GUI programs. It's still annoying, because it forces me to put
mount points in subdirectories, which I would not have needed to do if
these dialogs had been better designed.

I would have a problem with that as almost all of my mount points
are at the root of the filesystem -- or, perhaps, *one* level
below (e.g., I may have a shelf with 15 spindles and create
15 mount points under /shelf1).  Otherwise, there are mounts
at /cdrom, /thumb, /0, /1, /2, etc.