[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 490347] use sane mount options

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--- Comment #12 from Michael J Gruber <mjg at fedoraproject.org>  2009-03-27 14:10:34 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> First, this bug is really about DeviceKit-disks choosing non-sensical mount
> options. As it turns out this is fixed in upstream git
> 
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/DeviceKit/DeviceKit-disks/commit/?id=5c82f144da2cabb5750c716c9ff731b1b3c24372
> 
> already and this fix will be in Rawhide shortly. The problem, in a nutshell,
> was that the kernel people (for reasons unbeknownst to me) decided to remove
> the utf8 flag. So now we pass sane defaults (including utf8) and everything
> will work just fine in Fedora. As such, I'm moving this bug back to
> DeviceKit-disks and will close it with resolution RAWHIDE once the fix is in.
> 
> The other part of this bug a discussion of whether exposing mount options to
> end users is an useful thing to do. My view is that it is not. So the
> replacement for gnome-mount/HAL, namely gvfs/DeviceKit-disks, will not support
> that.
> 
> Either way, if people want mount options the DeviceKit-disks interface supports
> that. There are two ways to go about this
> 
>  1. use /etc/fstab
>     - to cope with removable media, use the /dev/disk/by-* symlinks
> 
>  2. modify the user of the DeviceKit-disks API to pass the mount options
>     you want
> 
> If you think gvfs and GNOME should support mount options the same way
> gnome-mount did (e.g. with gconf keys and UI dialogs), the best place to state
> your case about it is the upstream bug tracker
> 
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gvfs
> 
> and we can have a discussion about it there. Please include a clear rationale
> why you think mount options for block devices are useful.
> 
> What is not going to help your cause is
> 
>  - complaining that gnome-mount/HAL used to support this and gvfs/DeviceKit-
>    disk don't; we simply don't guarantee that kind of interface stability 
>    between major releases of Fedora

You're breaking existing installations through update!
As pointed out before, during upgrade this is a non-issue (in the sense that
there are no guarantees) but during update it should a big no-no. (I'm getting
the impression the F10 updates cycle is pretty bad at this, compared to earlier
versions.)

> 
>  - filing enhancement requests in a downstream bugzilla
> 
> Thanks.

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