[PATCH RFC] udisks2 mount options configuration files

[Stanislav Brabec]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 24 April 2015 at 21:36, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> That sounds better to
>> me than introducing yet another config file location/format?
>
> Me too; I'm pretty sure David was dead against this kind of
> configuration when we designed udisks/upower.

Well, me too. Partially.

But udev approach is clean and nice, but it requires root privileges. It 
is good for specifying system wide things, but bad for things like: 
Mount my camera SD card with shortname=lower.

I am all for removing system-wide configuration support from my patch 
and keep only a support for unprivileged stuff.

It would be nice, if the non-privileged configuration will be acceptable 
e. g. for gnome-disks.

And it would be nice to support all intended purposes by both 
system-wide and non-privileged configuration:

- Rule based configuration (e. g. removable disc => add "flush" for
   vfat).

- Per-volume configuration (e. g. this disc from camera should use my
   timezone, that backup disc should use UTC).

- Possibility to implement a pop-up after inserting a medium, asking
   for mount options before actually mount happens. (udisks2 already
   provides needed notification, so we should actually just prevent to
   make it impossible).

- Make possible to make decisions based on environment of calling task
   (i. e. desktop environment, e. g. codepage= based on locale,
   time_offset= based on timezone).

- Stuff that is safe for non-privileged users, should be doable by
   non-privileged users.

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Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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