hal 0.2.98 released

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:01 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:14 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 
> > Yeah. It's also a heuristic so not nice. I want to make this and other
> > policy stuff like mount point names configurable from two sources
> > 
> >  1. A configuration file for fstab-sync somewhere in /etc with simple
> >     and sweet rules much like udev (but perhaps in XML much like device
> >     information files)
> > 
> >  2. Properties on the hal device object itself, e.g. info.fstab.options
> >     and info.fstab.desired_mount_point. Or something.
> > 
> > Regarding 2., when we land the persistent hal device objects, it will be
> > easy, from a technical point of view, to build some UI for toggling e.g.
> > "Optimize for Quick Removal" or "Optimize for Performance" on a per-
> > drive or per-media setting. Which I think is useful. How that UI should
> > look is another question though :-)
> 
> Yup.  Nice.
> 
> Windows hides the option deep inside the drive's advanced properties.
> And it defaults to optimize for performance.

It depends on the bus. All usb media (maybe all removables?) are
optimized for "Quick Removal". And that policy works pretty well!

Kay

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