fstab symlink problems [was: VolumeUnmountForced symlink problem]

Rohan McGovern rohan.pm at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 21:12:23 PDT 2005


On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 07:41, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 15:15 +1000, Rohan McGovern wrote:
> > I did some more testing with HAL 0.5.1, and it seems the problem is
> > larger than I thought.
> > ...
>
> I've fixed a TODO that should fix this
>
> 
> http://cvs.freedesktop.org/hal/hal/hald/linux2/blockdev.c?r1=1.15&r2=1.16&m
>akepatch=1&diff_format=h
>
> Let me know if it works for you.
>

Behaviour is improved, e.g. HAL now updates volume.is_mounted when you mount a 
device using a symbolic link.  The original problem still exists however (HAL 
unmounts devices mounted with actual device nodes, but not those mounted with 
symlinks).

Rohan
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