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Re: [opensuse-factory] subfs dropped in 10.1 Beta 2
- From: Robert Schiele <rschiele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:29:20 +0100
- Message-id: <20060128102920.GZ28143@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:11:10AM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> With subfs the kernel triggered the actual file system mounting as the user id
> that accessed the device. You won't be able to do that with some HAL
> triggered automatism. Never - but you won't be able to do something like that
> with the functionality the linux kernel provides either. And as subfs will
> never be upstream, it was decided to drop it.
Thanks for explaining the reason why it was dropped. Such an expanation is
what I would expect in the first place when a decission of a change is
announced because I consider it quite annoying if decissions to change
something are announced without the reasons that lead to that decission.
Robert
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Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214
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"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."
> With subfs the kernel triggered the actual file system mounting as the user id
> that accessed the device. You won't be able to do that with some HAL
> triggered automatism. Never - but you won't be able to do something like that
> with the functionality the linux kernel provides either. And as subfs will
> never be upstream, it was decided to drop it.
Thanks for explaining the reason why it was dropped. Such an expanation is
what I would expect in the first place when a decission of a change is
announced because I consider it quite annoying if decissions to change
something are announced without the reasons that lead to that decission.
Robert
--
Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214
Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."
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