On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 13:28 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:23:51PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
It did disappear on purpose, however you may remove this section
<!-- Dont want to mount non-hotpluggable fixed disks since ideraid detection isnt complete as hald wrongly detects e.g. partitions from some IDE RAID controllers -->
<device> <match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="false"> <match key="storage.removable" bool="false"> <merge key="storage.policy.should_mount" type="bool">false</merge> </match> </match> </device>
from your /usr/share/hal/fdi/90systempolicy/storage-policy.fdi but do note that this may be replaced on hal updates.
A question. If one will drop into /usr/share/hal/fdi/95.... a .fdi file which looks like that fragment above but with
<merge key="storage.policy.should_mount" type="bool">true</merge>
will be this not an override for whatever happen to be system defaults?
No, that would be a bit dangerous as we blacklist other things as well (such as SCSI drives except optical ones).
(right now we may wrongly add entries for block devices stemming from IDE RAID controllers, that's partly why we pulled this feature).
As far as I understand this is only one of possible nasty suprises with "should_mount" set to widely to "true". Some of them we may yet to see. :-)
Well, if you find a bug in the filesystem probing code let us know.
OTOH if there would be application allowing 'root' to generate these XML files without doing that "raw", and while presenting a clear picture of keys and values, that would be nice.
Not sure - ideally users shouldn't have to fine tune this.
For FC4 I hope to have an option in the installer for selecting the default policy and one option would include "allow full use of all storage devices" (including non-hotpluggable fixed drives, e.g. your FAT and NTFS partitions), another one could be "read-only access to hotpluggable drives" and of course an option to completely lock things down (e.g. no entries are ever added to the /etc/fstab).
Cheers, David