Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (193 mails)

[Volker Kuhlmann <hidden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I don't know what these highly-developed do exactly, but I guess there's 
> a GUI and a (suid-root?) backend calling mount.

Something like that is my understanding too. The program calling mount
is hald-subfs-mount, and it's not tied to either KDE or gnome. I have
not yet seen a reason why this has to be a C program, I reckon I can do
it in bash and it's not too difficult.

> Is it difficult to create a shell script or a little console app called 
> by HAL to do the automount?

No, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=141544 has the framework
already.

> Volker already suggested a /etc/sysconfig variable

Can't claim credit for that one. Disabling subfs just means that above
script has to mount -t something instead of -t subfs. The actual fs type
is supplied by hal in the environment to the script.

> I also agree that the *.fdi files are *NOT* user-friendly and would be 
> happy to have a better solution.

Me too. Stay with fstab thanks, and nobody needs to read more docs.

Volker

-- 
Volker Kuhlmann			is possibly list0570 with the domain in header
http://volker.dnsalias.net/		Please do not CC list postings to me.