http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544199
User bruno.canning@dsl.pipex.com added comment
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544199#c14
Bruno Canning changed:
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--- Comment #14 from Bruno Canning 2009-11-08 09:30:50 MST ---
OK, apologies for breaking bugzilla etiquette. As per comment #13, I disagree
with the priority of this bug being set to "P5 - None". If all external USB
storage devices were not automatically mounted on hot-plugging, I'm sure
everyone would consider this a major problem. However, as this problem seems to
be restricted only to storage devices using the NTFS file-system, I do not
think it is any less severe. It amounts to the same thing for owners of NTFS
formatted storage media.
Many storage devices are supplied pre-formatted with NTFS. Many people also use
microsoft operating systems in addition to linux operating systems and will
have storage devices formatted with NTFS and want these devices to be
inter-operable with these OSes. If this bug is not fixed prior to final
release, it will prevent many non-technical users of Suse from using their
computing equipment as they require. The facilities to resolve this already
exist in Suse (ntfs-3g) and indeed it used to work without problem in 10.3 but
has been broken since 11.0. In addition, I for one find this bug extremely
annoying, it should just work. On installation, dual booters can configure
their Suse system to mount any NTFS partitions in their internal drives, so it
is a poor situation that they cannot auto-mount external NTFS drives.
If you need any assistance with resolving this, please say and I'll be right
here for you. However, I am only slightly technical, so I would know where to
start in trying to resolve this myself, I'd need a hint on where to start
looking but may be able to compare the code from 10.3 and 11.2 relating to this
problem to see where the problem is.
As per info on the link in comment #13, I'll be setting SHIP_STOPPER flag on
this bug to "?" as I feel very strongly that it needs attention.
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