[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 490347] use sane mount options

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490347


David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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          Component|gvfs                        |DeviceKit-disks
            Summary|gvfs doesn't use            |use sane mount options
                   |/system/storage/default_opt |
                   |ions/vfat/mount_options     |




--- Comment #11 from David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com>  2009-03-27 13:20:14 EDT ---
First, this bug is really about DeviceKit-disks choosing non-sensical mount
options. As it turns out this is fixed in upstream git


http://cgit.freedesktop.org/DeviceKit/DeviceKit-disks/commit/?id=5c82f144da2cabb5750c716c9ff731b1b3c24372

already and this fix will be in Rawhide shortly. The problem, in a nutshell,
was that the kernel people (for reasons unbeknownst to me) decided to remove
the utf8 flag. So now we pass sane defaults (including utf8) and everything
will work just fine in Fedora. As such, I'm moving this bug back to
DeviceKit-disks and will close it with resolution RAWHIDE once the fix is in.

The other part of this bug a discussion of whether exposing mount options to
end users is an useful thing to do. My view is that it is not. So the
replacement for gnome-mount/HAL, namely gvfs/DeviceKit-disks, will not support
that.

Either way, if people want mount options the DeviceKit-disks interface supports
that. There are two ways to go about this

 1. use /etc/fstab
    - to cope with removable media, use the /dev/disk/by-* symlinks

 2. modify the user of the DeviceKit-disks API to pass the mount options
    you want

If you think gvfs and GNOME should support mount options the same way
gnome-mount did (e.g. with gconf keys and UI dialogs), the best place to state
your case about it is the upstream bug tracker

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gvfs

and we can have a discussion about it there. Please include a clear rationale
why you think mount options for block devices are useful.

What is not going to help your cause is

 - complaining that gnome-mount/HAL used to support this and gvfs/DeviceKit-
   disk don't; we simply don't guarantee that kind of interface stability 
   between major releases of Fedora

 - filing enhancement requests in a downstream bugzilla

Thanks.

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