Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[Andrea Negro <andrea@xxxxxxxx>]

Kastus disse:

> > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:07:07AM +0200, Andrea Negro wrote:
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> > > > The same problem for the USB key: it insist in mounting my usb memory
> > > > stick read only, while i of course want it read write.
> > > > the question is: why subfs gives that options? How can I change them?
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> > It's not subfs giving you those options, it's
> > /etc/hotplug/hotplug.subfs.functions
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I see, thanks. I will try to tweak it to have a correct behaviour.


> > > > And, of course, why it gives so stupid options?
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> > Maybe it's a limitation of subfs implementation.
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> > It is unable to recognize vfat file system without floppyfss parameter,
> > and it is uanable to recognize reserfs or xfs or ext3 with floppyfss
> > parameter.
> > That's the price of using beta software.
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The price... I don't pay to have Suse software, but I'm thinking about
people who buy Suse 9.1 pro paying around 70 euros or so, and they receive
a system which is unstable and beta software...
Subfs is quite a questionable piece of software, since
gnome-volume-manager is able to do the same thing in a better way (since
in kde, the /media/usb-strange-path is not hidden, while in gnome there is
no hint about the real mount point, which is the way to go), and without
involving any kernel module (using kernel modules instead of user space
programs if possible is always bad).

<critic mode on>
I don't understand Suse policy: they find a crappy piece of software like
subfs, and they put it in a new release of "stable" distro, creating a
mess (i can't believe they didn't tried to use a floppy and realize it
does not work, while it was working smoothly on msdos 3.1). At this point,
I really prefer Fedora, which is experimental by definition, while Suse
pro is a testbed for enterprise distros, but this is not declared
officially.
</critic mode off>

:) 

Andrea