preferences.fdi being ignored

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Fri May 16 04:43:44 PDT 2008


Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Freitag, 16. Mai 2008, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> [...] (removed the 'usefull' fullquoting)
>
>   
>> As I understand it, the problem is that HAL is not the one deciding
>> what the mount options should be. HAL only has a list of what the
>> valid mount options are. Whoever is listening for HAL events and
>> telling HAL to use its Mount method is sending the mount options. If
>> this is GNOME, that would be gnome-mount. It stores the user's
>> preferred mount options in GConf. So, you need to figure out who your
>> automounter is and how to change the mount options it passes to HAL.
>>     
>
> There are is no volume.policy.mount_option.* since ages if you take a look at 
> the HAL spec. The tool you use (KDE/GNOME/ivman ...) has to handle all the 
> mount options.
>   

http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/hal/hal/doc/spec/hal-spec.html

Sections 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 show those options still being available.

That's where I got the options.

--Yan

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