HAL methods at storage device level, to mount/unmount/eject volumes

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 18:58 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Hence, the suggestion about moving policy-decision about whether to use
> > the in-kernel ntfs driver or the captive user-space stuff, down to the
> > hal helper script for mounting sounds pretty good to me. You can even
> > test for the presence of these tools and it'll just work even if the
> > user installs this post-OS-installation.
> > 
> > What is wrong with doing that?
> 
> Well what's wrong with having it? It's a user policy if you want to use
> fuse or subfs and not a system-wide config option. It should even be possible
> to configure that policy in the user session for specific devices. The mount
> script is not supposed to look-up data in the user session, right?

Right, yea, I guess that's a point worth considering. Let's go for
passing the desired fs (with "" being use the one volume_id detected)
then but let's be super paranoid about when we allow overrides. 

Cheers,
David