Updating FC3T3 does make udev not recognizing Windows partition

[luya at jpopmail.com]

----- Original Message -----
From: David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk>
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Updating FC3T3 does make udev not recognizing Windows partition
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:42:18 -0400

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please fix you mailer to wrap at 76 characters per line,
> 
> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 10:12 -0800, luya at jpopmail.com wrote:
> > After I update FC3T3 for the evaluation, I noticed udev does
> >  not recognize Windows partition anymore. 
> 
> I'm sure udev recognizes your partition. You're probably talking about
> hal and fstab-sync.

So that explain why I couldn't find vfat partition on /etc/fstab. I though 
the updated messed it up.

> 
> > I thought that was good feature for udev to instantly detect 
> > and allow access to non-Fedora partition. 
> > I have dual boot and will be disappointed if that feature didn't 
> > make to the final release. Any reason for the removal>
> 
> Basically the ataraid detection in hal isn't complete and that means
> that, in theory, fstab-sync could add RAID members from IDE drives
> connected to e.g. IDE RAID controllers to the /etc/fstab file. Which
> could result in data corruption. That would be very bad.
> 
> So we played it safe and disabled adding entries for all non-
> hotpluggable fixed drives for FC3 final. An interesting effect of this
> is that most multi-boot systems wont get hit by the ext3 xattr bug, see
> 
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137068
> 
> for details. It will still apply for e.g. filesystems stemming from
> disks in USB or Firewire enclosures.
> 
> This is something I want to enable when Rawhide for FC4 opens though.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> David
> 
Looks like I will have to use the manual method to enable vfat partition.
I thought you choose to enable RAID on the partition (in case I did not).
Hopefully, that feature will be available as update in FC3 final release.


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