"quiet" mount option to VFAT

Pozsar Balazs pozsy at uhulinux.hu
Thu Jan 27 15:46:23 PST 2005


On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 02:29:48AM +0300, Dan Korostelev wrote:
> I think, HAL's default storage policy should add "quiet" mount option to
> vfat volumes. Because w/o that option, some filemanagers (mc, nautilus
> AFAIK, and others) will fail trying to chown or chmod files when
> copying. Because errors will be returned by the kernel, 'cause VFAT
> doesn't support users and rights. With "quiet" option, kernel won't
> return errors on those operations.

I think that hal should touch this option. It is either a generally good 
idea to use it, or not. If it is, then it should be a kernel default. If 
it is not, then hal should not set it.



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pozsy
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