How are external USB drives processed? TFM wanted
Roberto Ragusa
mail at robertoragusa.it
Wed Jun 14 08:26:32 UTC 2006
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Here is one I did
> for a PEN drive on a Mandriva system:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
>
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> <device>
> <match key="info.bus" string="usb">
> <match key="usb.vendor_id" int="0x0d7d">
> <match key="usb.product_id" int="0x1300">
> <append key="volume.policy.desired_mount_point"
> type="string">PENdrive</append>
> </match>
> </match>
> </match>
> </device>
> </deviceinfo>
I'm using a similar setup, but matching the partitions on the external USB
disk using
<match key="info.parent" string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX">
and then for every partition
<match key="volume.partition.number" int="XXXXXXXX">
The <merge key="volume.policy.desired_mount_point"> part works perfectly,
but I didn't find a way to avoid the annoying "sync" mount option: tried
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">false</merge>
with no effect.
The sync option kills the writing speed of the disk: from >20MB/s to 2MB/s.
I'm still trying to like this automatic mounting stuff: at the moment it's
more annoying than useful.
There are many heavily configurable parts involved in the process:
udev, hal, KDE/GNOME. A good "all-inclusive" documentation is still
missing, as far as I've found around.
Best regards.
--
Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
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