Hal and fuse filesystem support

[Florent Mertens]

Hello,

I'm actually thinking on a way to integrate ntfs-3g in the gnome desktop
to be able to use it as default in the future, and so i have some
questions to ask you.
For those who don't know it yet, ntfs-3g is an ntfs driver based on
ntfsmount which provide full read/write support to any ntfs partition.
To make it more secure, it use the fuse interface, and so is in fact a
virtual filesystem.
And here is the problem. Because it's a virtual filesystem, hal don't
match it with an existant partition (different block.major &
block.minor) and so set the ntfs partition mounted with fuse to unmount.
Gnome-vfs apparently check mtab & hal to create volume.
When hal is disable, checking only in mtab work and it create a volume,
but when hal is enable, because the partition found in mtab is set to
unmount in hal, it don't create volume, leaving the impression that the
partition is unmounted (even if it's not the case).

I aleady send an email to the gnome-vfs guy to know if it's possible to
disable the hal check for fuse fs and what they think about that. But an
other implementation could be to make hal recognize the fuse filesystem,
and make the match with existant hal partitions by an other way than
with block.major & block.minor, and those to be able to set it to
mounted.

I wanted to know what you think about that, and if you think that it's
better to do the job in hal or in gnome-vfs (and of course if you think
it's a hal problem, if you could do it ;) )?

Thanks,

Florent Mertens