Mount option hazardous to USB Flash!

Ian Malone ibm21 at cam.ac.uk
Sat May 14 11:51:28 UTC 2005


John Summerfied wrote:
 > Ian Malone wrote:

 >> It took quite a while to work out how to change the HAL options for
 >> mounting the player.  Neither the fstab-sync manpage or the HAL
 >> documentation mention the need to restart the haldaemon to re-read
 >> /usr/share/hal/fdi/, which took a while to find out.  Once I had that
 >> I couldn't find a rule that would match usb disks, although it should
 >> have been easy:


 > If you found a config file in /usr it's a bug and FC isn't
 > LSB-compliant as I understand it.

 > If there's a file in /usr that you need to diddle with and it's not a
 > config file, it sounds like it ought to be.

 > I suggest that someone who's affected write up a bug report describing
 > the original problem, the workaround and these opinions.

 > destroying computer equipment is a fairly serious matter, but so is
 > standards-compliance.

As I was doing it I thought "So we're keeping configuration files in
/usr now?"

 From man fstab-stync:
"By  default, the /usr/share/hal/fdi/90defaultpolicy/storage-policy.fdi 
file specifies the policy - this file should never be  edited  by  the 
      system  administrator  as  it  might  get updated by the OS vendor 
for security updates. Instead, system- or site-specific rules can  be  put
in the /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy directory."

It looks like the default policy can be justified being under /usr
since it's supposed to be part of the package, not a configuration
file.  However, I think a 'system-specific' rule probably should be
under /etc.

Since the rules are XML I wonder if it's possible to create an include
in /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy pointing to something under /etc
(or maybe just symlink, but I'm not sure how elegant people think that
is).

(sorry about any corruption, but I'm using a Windows machine to cut
and paste from a redirected manpage: not ideal)
-- 
imalone




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