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 <bruno.canning@dsl.pipex.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flag| |SHIP_STOPPER? --- Comment #14 from Bruno Canning <bruno.canning@dsl.pipex.com> 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. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.