automount ntfs volumes (was ntfs volume and locale= option)

[Danny Kukawka]

On Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2008/10/11 Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka at ntfs-3g.org>:
[...]
> As Danny said, hal has been pretty stable in that regard.
> Could you please elaborate (with concrete details), where  there are
> problems within hal which make it impossible for you to ship such an
> fdi file.
> I highly doubt, that it is not possible to create such a reference fdi
> file within ntfs-3g which would work for the majority of users (and
> distros)
>
> > I see three potential solutions:
> >
> >  1. Ntfs-3g includes something which works everywhere and we will fully
> >    support it in the future.
>
> I like Dan's proposal. You could ship a refererence fdi file which is
> *not* installed by default.
> ntfs-3g package maintainers could use this fdi file as base for their fdi
> file.

+1

> >  2. Distribution maintainers include the proper HAL config which works
> >    with their shipped HAL version. This is how it is done now.
>
> Actuallly, this is not done atm. I don't know a distribution, where
> the ntfs-3g package ships a proper fdi file.
>
> That's one of the reasons why I started this discussion.
> If we can agree on a best-practice how to address this issue, and you
> as upstream lead the way, then I'm certain most distros would follow.

Any comments on my proposal to solve this issue for future releases of HAL? I 
would like to have a solution for the next release to push the desktop 
distros to adapt their mount handling to the changed spec.

Danny