volume and storage policy properties

[Danny Kukawka]

On Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2009, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> Could anyone please tell me why volume and storage policy properties
> (volume.policy.* & storage.policy.*) are missing in the recent HAL spec?
> Are they deprecated? Is there any replace for them?
> I have also found that functions to work with these properties are
> marked as deprecated in libhal-storage...

They where removed ages ago:

On Freitag, 24. Februar 2006, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> hal 0.5.7 "Dead as Dillinger." is now available from
>
>  http://freedesktop.org/~david/dist/hal-0.5.7.tar.gz
>
> Changes from 0.5.6
>
[...]
>  - Remove volume.policy.* and storage.policy.* properties (David Zeuthen)
[...]

There is no replacement, it's now up to tool (KDE/GNOME/ivman) which use the 
HAL D-Bus interface for mount to force the needed policy. There is no longer 
a way to force some kind of default policy via HAL itself.

Danny