hal 0.2.98 released

[Robert Love]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:14 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:

> Yeah. It's also a heuristic so not nice. I want to make this and other
> policy stuff like mount point names configurable from two sources
> 
>  1. A configuration file for fstab-sync somewhere in /etc with simple
>     and sweet rules much like udev (but perhaps in XML much like device
>     information files)
> 
>  2. Properties on the hal device object itself, e.g. info.fstab.options
>     and info.fstab.desired_mount_point. Or something.
> 
> Regarding 2., when we land the persistent hal device objects, it will be
> easy, from a technical point of view, to build some UI for toggling e.g.
> "Optimize for Quick Removal" or "Optimize for Performance" on a per-
> drive or per-media setting. Which I think is useful. How that UI should
> look is another question though :-)

Yup.  Nice.

Windows hides the option deep inside the drive's advanced properties.
And it defaults to optimize for performance.

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