> Can you detect a ext3 drive that doesn't have xattrs applied?
If so, the work
> around is not to write anything related to xattrs to that drive.
It sounds to me like this should be fixed in the kernel.
Agreed. A solution in the kernel would be ideal. However, I cannot assume that
will ever happen. I am looking for a work around that prevents the problem from
occurring in the first place. I think it can be done by simply not having enough
info available for automounting programs to "connect the dots".
>>I'm not sure how well turning off media detection works
presently
>
> Something changed after yesterday's updates. I set everything to false
> yesterday and there were no entries in /media and fstab. Today they
> are there.
I found this problem. My shell script didn't provide quotes to the xml attribute
tags. parse error. This all works fine.
Maintaining mountpoints == maintaining /etc/fstab. There will be a
configuration for fstab-sync to specify whether a drive or media should
be ignored. So you'll be able to say something like
block.device="/dev/hda7", ignore
storage.serial="CLP225F2G3UR4A", ignore
block.device="/dev/hda2", mount_point="/mnt/my_own_mount_point"
volume.label="CANON_DC", mount_point="/mnt/my_camera",
options="noauto,user,exec,noatime,sync"
It would be nice if the syntax was awk or bash friendly. I plan to write a
configuration tool for this in the ccs tools.
I'm not sure how to best work around the xattr issue and I'm
wary at
adding special casing code at the hal level for this - I'm more of the
opinion that this should be solved at the kernel level and I'm curious
at what other people think.
Maybe the above syntax will be enough for a work around. That's all I'm after for
the short term. Where are these config files to be kept? /etc or /usr? If /usr,
be sure to test on a computer that has /usr on a separate partition. I also
wonder how well it works from a nash shell when something blows up during boot.
:) With the xattr oops problem affecting me everyday, I'm sure I'll find out...
2 bugzilla reports were filed for hal.
-Steve Grubb
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