"quiet" mount option to VFAT

[Alexey Morozov]

Behdad Esfahbod writes:

>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, David Zeuthen wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 02:29 +0300, Dan Korostelev wrote:
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>>>I think, HAL's default storage policy should add "quiet" mount option to
>>>vfat volumes. Because w/o that option, some filemanagers (mc, nautilus
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>>This should probably be something a distributor could finetune his
>>hal packages to do.
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>Well, is it much different from HAL mounting VFAT with utf8
>option?
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It's clearly that UTF-8 is a vendor specific option. Just because so 
many (console) apps have significant problems when utf-8 really becomes 
multibyte. Thus certain distributions prefer old-style single-byte 
encodings as system default. As far as I checked last time some of GNU 
textutils/coreutils still aren't multibyte clean, zsh behaves strangely 
when _certain_ two+-bytes letters are typed (and/or _cleared_ w/ 
backspace), text labels in Midnight Commander and entire ncurses apps 
family sometimes looks weird when multibyte strings are in use etc etc. 
Most of Western (American and European) speakers usually don't notice 
this because they usually work w/ single byte letters (us-ascii), but 
those [unluckies :-)] w/ non-Latin based alphabets can see such bugs 
regularly...

'quiet' I think is even a more general requirement just because it's 
independent of a user's language environment and it always makes sense 
when dealing w/ filesystems which don't support unix-style attributes.
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