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

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka at web.de> wrote:
> On Freitag, 24. Oktober 2008, Robby Workman wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:54:23 +0200
>>
>> Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka at web.de> wrote:
>> > On Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> [...]
>> > > 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.
>> >
>> > Any comments on my proposal (see
>> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-October/012358.html)?
>> > If there are no comments, I go to commit the changes to the spec.
>>
>> Forward looking, that sounds reasonable (I think).
>> Am I correct in thinking that this doesn't really help us at all in the
>> short term though?  That is, kde-3.5.x, xfce-4.4.x (and soon to be
>> released 4.6.0) will still have the same problems?
>
> I guess you are right, since it need the desktops/tools to get adopted. Until
> then you need another fdi-file which overwrites the fs-type and set the
> allowed mount options for ntfs-3g. While this is wrong in general it should
> be very generic (it should run with the most of the latest HAL releases).

I would agree with that. If you went and installed ntfs-3g, you
probably expect to handle mounting of your NTFS filesystems. So,
having an fdi file that kludges fstype to ntfs-3g for all of them (or
all the removable ones or whatever) is not so bad in the short term.
People that care enough to want to differentiate the mount handler
between ntfs and ntfs-3g in that case could probably figure out a
local fdi setup to do this. Of course, having all that described in
ntfs-3g documentation would be nice.

--
Dan