HAL should not mount all UMS volumes with sync option

[Danny Kukawka]

On Friday 11 August 2006 17:53, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Since my latest update (which mainly brought KDE 3.5.4) my rsync-backups
> to my external USB hard disc (300 GB) are extremely slow, because if I
> mount it (via KDE's volume manager which works with pmount and HAL) the
> sync mount option is used.
[...]
> I found two solutions on the net, but they don't work for me. In both I
> had to create a *.fdi file under /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy/.
[...]

This information are complete out-dated, hal don't use this options anymore. 
You should blame your KDE (settings) or pmount, which mount via HAL.

Danny