automount ntfs volumes (was ntfs volume and locale= option)

[Szabolcs Szakacsits]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka at ntfs-3g.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Robby Workman wrote:
> >
> >> Okay, all that being the case, we still need to work something out to
> >> have a modicum of consistency among distributions.  I'll bet I'm not
> >> alone in being often frustrated by reports of "I can do $x in
> >> $distribution, but it works differently in $other_distribution - how do
> >> I replicate the behaviour in $distribution?"  We (Slackware) ship an fdi
> >> file in our ntfs-3g package that seems to work out well, at least for
> >> the majority of users, but of course, there are going to be corner
> >> cases.   Maybe we packagers can work out a "de-facto" standard, so as
> >> an effort to start that process, here's our fdi file (attached).
> >> Comments and criticism welcome :-)
> >
> > Thanks. We tried to walk on this path a few times, sadly without much
> > success.
> >
> > The above approach works for specific distribution versions __until__
> > ntfs-3g or HAL is upgraded (or downgraded). Which happens too often.
> 
> IMO, if you put an example fdi file in the tarball and explain it in
> the README (don't install it), packagers will follow your lead and
> start using it or crafting a file based on it to use with the HAL in
> their distro. There will probably be cases where this fdi file is
> wrong (as you already know), but at least you pinpoint a place where
> that discussion happens. 

The problem is not with package maintainers. They could always solve the 
problem fine. But with those daily 1000+ new users who can't adapt the fdi 
file to their current or upgrade HAL version.

> I'm guessing that you have a better idea of a proper ntfs-3g fdi file 
> than anyone.

To be honest, I don't have the slightest clue. I can only see the problem 
is being regularly solved in different ways for specific distribution 
versions but when things are upgraded or used elswehere then automount 
breaks.

	Szaka

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