Checking volumes and storage devices for fstab entries

[Danny Kukawka]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 15:48, Martin Pitt wrote:
> However, we still want to volume.ignore partitions which are
> automatically mounted from fstab. Since fstab information might be
> interesting for other purposes, too, I wrote a patch for the volume
> and storage probers to add two new properties
> linux.fstab.{mountpoint,options}. The patch recognizes device name
> symlinks, and the UUID= and LABEL= syntax.

But your patch generates maybe invalid information in HAL if e.g. the root 
user change a fstab entry. You check the fstab information only in the prober 
which is normaly only called if the device get added or HAL startup.

IMO HAL shoul not provide possibly invalid or outdated information.

Danny