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