Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 02:07 schrieb houghi:
Hello all,
During the IRC meeting from 2006-01-24 it was announced that subfs has been dropped. IRC log and minutes can be found at http://www.opensuse.org/2006-01-24-status-meeting and the timestap for the subfs issue begins at 19:47
From the minutes:
- subfs has been dropped and will be replaced by hal plus gnome-volume-manager (under GNOME) and some binary for KDE. non-KDE and non-GNOME users have to mount manually. They cant even put a line into /etc/fstab, so that a user can mount it. There was a consens that this is unacceptable. Action Item houghi: - start discussion about subfs replacement in non KDE/GNOME systems on opensuse-factory
Questions that arise: - Should this be accepted or should it be delayed till a complete solution is given? - As the question came from an FAQ about having subfs disables, is there perhaps a better solution for everybody. Easy disableling subfs for those who want it and enabled for those who want that. I think this is the most important question. Many (power)users are annoyed with the (non working, slow) solution in 10.0. Switching back to manual mount is in many cases the best solution for USB and Firewire disks.
3 suggestions: 1. Putting the decision (irreversible) in the installation workflow. Automatic mount shall be the default, but powerusers should be able to select manual mounting. 2. (my favorite): Internal media, floppy, CD/DVD shall be mountet automatically. The very first time you plug an external drive, the system asks, wheter you want to use this drive automatically or manually mounted. If you choose the latter, hal (or whatever) puts a corresponding fdi-file under /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy/, which disables the automatic mount of the device. If the file is deleted, the system uses automatic mount. 3. Create a variable AUTOMOUNT= in /etc/sysconfig/hardware/config (or wherever), which enables/disables automount for all devices. -- Üdvözlettel -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen, Marcel Hilzinger -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger Linux New Media AG Süskindstr. 4 D-81929 München Tel: +49 (89) 99 34 11 0 Fax: +49 (89) 99 34 11 99