volume.ignore vs mount privilege

[Danny Kukawka]

On Monday 25 September 2006 18:16, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Historically, adding volume.ignore was also (in addition to hiding
> firmware partitions etc.) a stop-gap solution to prevent console users
> in Fedora to mount partitions from fixed disks because some people
> thought that was given console users too much power. Personally, I don't
> subscribe to that goal.

There are also some other reasons to have this currently. We have this in SUSE 
for all not hotpluggable harddisk partitions to avoid problems and data 
destruction with e.g. Multipath, SAN or OCFS2/CSM/evms.

Danny