----- Original Message ----- From: David Zeuthen <david@xxxxxxxx> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Updating FC3T3 does make udev not recognizing Windows partition Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:42:18 -0400 > > > Hi, > > Please fix you mailer to wrap at 76 characters per line, > > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 10:12 -0800, luya@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > After I update FC3T3 for the evaluation, I noticed udev does > > not recognize Windows partition anymore. > > I'm sure udev recognizes your partition. You're probably talking about > hal and fstab-sync. So that explain why I couldn't find vfat partition on /etc/fstab. I though the updated messed it up. > > > I thought that was good feature for udev to instantly detect > > and allow access to non-Fedora partition. > > I have dual boot and will be disappointed if that feature didn't > > make to the final release. Any reason for the removal> > > Basically the ataraid detection in hal isn't complete and that means > that, in theory, fstab-sync could add RAID members from IDE drives > connected to e.g. IDE RAID controllers to the /etc/fstab file. Which > could result in data corruption. That would be very bad. > > So we played it safe and disabled adding entries for all non- > hotpluggable fixed drives for FC3 final. An interesting effect of this > is that most multi-boot systems wont get hit by the ext3 xattr bug, see > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137068 > > for details. It will still apply for e.g. filesystems stemming from > disks in USB or Firewire enclosures. > > This is something I want to enable when Rawhide for FC4 opens though. > > Hope this helps, > David > Looks like I will have to use the manual method to enable vfat partition. I thought you choose to enable RAID on the partition (in case I did not). Hopefully, that feature will be available as update in FC3 final release. > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list > -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.jp.popstarmail.org Powered by Outblaze