On 4/24/06, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4/24/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yes, in all fairness, FC should at least auto dete and mount vfat > > partions, for that matter, it should offer to mount any fixed partion > > whose FS it can detect. > > The policy to ignore fixed partitions by default was the result of > security arguments associated with multiuser server systems. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177177#c19 > > If you incorrectly define the fedora core mandate as being primarily a > single-user desktop system, then its very easy to say that vfat fixed > disks should be treated like the plugged media devices. But once you > start thinking beyond that very narrow usage case, into other > situations which are more common in data center, or moderatelly sized > multi-user environments, the scenario becomes problematic and its not > so simple an issue as you would originally think. > > But don't confuse the lack of an optimal solution right now as > evidence that people don't care about this and that they are not > working to fix it. The PolicyKit work that is going on upstream with > regard to hal is evidence of real effort to make progress on a thorny > issue which has to strike a balance between single-user scenarios and > server scenarios for Fedora Core's "general use" mandate. > Ok, fair enough. Thanks for that information. But wouldn't something on the firstboot or Anaconda side solve that problem? Or am I misunderstanding the problem? -- As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
