"quiet" mount option to VFAT

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Fri Jan 28 07:44:16 PST 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 02:29 +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.
> 

This should probably be something a distributor could finetune his
hal packages to do.

Cheers,
David


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