hal + udev + gnome-volume-manager

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 13:40 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> g-v-m runs as the user and talks over dbus to hal and requests the
> mounting, by invoking a method on the hal device object.

(and this may be done through e.g. gnome-mount but that's mostly just a
convenience detail)

>  The actual
> mounting is done by hal, but the request and the policy comes from the
> user.

Exactly. It's also covered in a nice diagram on page 17 of

 http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/talks/dynamic-device-handling-OLS-2006.pdf

if you ignore the first part with crypto volumes...

    David