Checking volumes and storage devices for fstab entries

[Martin Pitt]

Hi,

Danny Kukawka [2006-12-13 17:11 +0100]:
> 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.

Point taken. So a 'proper' solution would be an addon with an inotify
watch on fstab that sets the properties whenever things change.

Would you be interested in such a feature at all? If so, then I'm
happy to cook something. 

If not, i. e. if I have to maintain this as a local patch anyway, I'm
going to make that much simpler, screw the FDI rule and just check
fstab/hide the volume in gnome-vfs.

Thanks, and have a great weekend,

Martin

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