Updating FC3T3 does make udev not recognizing Windows partition

[David Zeuthen]

Hi,

Please fix you mailer to wrap at 76 characters per line,

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 10:12 -0800, luya at jpopmail.com wrote:
> After I update FC3T3 for the evaluation, I noticed udev does
>  not recognize Windows partition anymore. 

I'm sure udev recognizes your partition. You're probably talking about
hal and fstab-sync.

> I thought that was good feature for udev to instantly detect 
> and allow access to non-Fedora partition. 
> I have dual boot and will be disappointed if that feature didn't 
> make to the final release. Any reason for the removal>

Basically the ataraid detection in hal isn't complete and that means
that, in theory, fstab-sync could add RAID members from IDE drives
connected to e.g. IDE RAID controllers to the /etc/fstab file. Which
could result in data corruption. That would be very bad.

So we played it safe and disabled adding entries for all non-
hotpluggable fixed drives for FC3 final. An interesting effect of this
is that most multi-boot systems wont get hit by the ext3 xattr bug, see

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137068

for details. It will still apply for e.g. filesystems stemming from
disks in USB or Firewire enclosures.

This is something I want to enable when Rawhide for FC4 opens though.

Hope this helps,
David