F8devel - Review HAL policy about hiding partitions

[Naheem Zaffar]

For NTFS there is the tool called ntfs-config which changes the
policy. Maybe this should be generalised to a tool for all storage
formats? (call it system-config-storage or summat?)

Also, is /etc/fstab not on it's way out? I thought the plan was for it
to be autogenerated at some point?

On 16/06/07, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Otto Rey <otto_rey <at> yahoo.com.ar> writes:
> > Why we continue hiding partitions with HAL policy
> > (/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/
> > 99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi)??
>
> Call me old-fashioned, but IMHO mounting of fixed disk partitions is
> what /etc/fstab is for. (And I'm not even a sysadmin, just a home user
> adminning my own machines.)
>
> > It's for security?
>
> Not only, see the bug report this was discussed in. The other problems with the
> automounting were:
> * mountpoint not easily settable (An easy way to set a HAL policy fixing the
> mountpoint could help there. But you'll still see resistance from sysadmins who
> won't understand why they have to learn a new way when /etc/fstab has worked
> fine for ages.)
> * default mountpoint can be different across reboots (Is this problem resolved
> yet? Fixed partitions should really be mounted to the same place at each
> reboot.)
> * "updating" of ext2/ext3 partitions containing older GNU/Linux distributions
> with new ext3 features, making those fail to boot (I see no easy solution for
> this one.)
>
> IMHO, the best way to deal with fixed disk partitions would be to offer an easy
> setting to add them to fstab within Anaconda, or maybe firstboot. I really
> don't understand the advantage of HAL over fstab for fixed disks. HAL is great
> for stuff which can be unplugged or inserted at runtime, but we're talking
> about fixed disk drives here.
>
>         Kevin Kofler
>
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