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

[Raúl Sánchez Siles]

  Hello All:

Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:

> 
> 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 can't see how could it be worst having a .fdi file not used by default
than not having anyone in that case. A regular user just would go on using
ntfs-3g as (s)he did, whereas all distros would be hinted on the right .fdi
their users in turn would happily use.

> Szaka
> 

  Just my 2c. Regards,

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