>> Can you detect a ext3 drive that doesn't have xattrs applied? If so, the work >> around is not to write anything related to xattrs to that drive. > >It sounds to me like this should be fixed in the kernel. Agreed. A solution in the kernel would be ideal. However, I cannot assume that will ever happen. I am looking for a work around that prevents the problem from occurring in the first place. I think it can be done by simply not having enough info available for automounting programs to "connect the dots". >>>I'm not sure how well turning off media detection works presently >> >> Something changed after yesterday's updates. I set everything to false >> yesterday and there were no entries in /media and fstab. Today they >> are there. I found this problem. My shell script didn't provide quotes to the xml attribute tags. parse error. This all works fine. >Maintaining mountpoints == maintaining /etc/fstab. There will be a >configuration for fstab-sync to specify whether a drive or media should >be ignored. So you'll be able to say something like > > block.device="/dev/hda7", ignore > storage.serial="CLP225F2G3UR4A", ignore > block.device="/dev/hda2", mount_point="/mnt/my_own_mount_point" > volume.label="CANON_DC", mount_point="/mnt/my_camera", > options="noauto,user,exec,noatime,sync" It would be nice if the syntax was awk or bash friendly. I plan to write a configuration tool for this in the ccs tools. >I'm not sure how to best work around the xattr issue and I'm wary at >adding special casing code at the hal level for this - I'm more of the >opinion that this should be solved at the kernel level and I'm curious >at what other people think. Maybe the above syntax will be enough for a work around. That's all I'm after for the short term. Where are these config files to be kept? /etc or /usr? If /usr, be sure to test on a computer that has /usr on a separate partition. I also wonder how well it works from a nash shell when something blows up during boot. :) With the xattr oops problem affecting me everyday, I'm sure I'll find out... 2 bugzilla reports were filed for hal. -Steve Grubb __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
