[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#415893: hal: at least be consistent, maybe?

[Christian Pernegger]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.10+git20080301-1
Followup-For: Bug #415893


Given the following fstab these are the results I get wrt to
(non-)ignored volumes:

- /mnt/vault shows up as a mounted volume on the Gnome desktop.
It's automatically mounted during bootup, it has a well defined access
method via it's mount point (and a few symlinks), there's no need to
confuse users with a desktop shortcut to something they ideally
wouldn't even know is there. I thought the all-files-in-one-tree
paradigm was one of the nice things about *NIX

- /mnt/scratch does NOT show up.
I assume that's because it's encrypted, but why? Either show fixed
disks, or don't.

- the COMPONENT disks of the vault (md-raid1) show up as well, only
  unmounted. So there's 3 volumes that look identical to the user ->
  perfect confusion. Please add a rule to ignore raid component
  devices, even if they look like there's a working fs on them.


I guess the people who complained about the old behaviour didn't have
storage pools for fixed mounts but their dual-boot Windows disks or
somesuch, where it does make more sense to treat the mount as
stand-alone volume than as an integral part of the filesystem tree.

Either solution isn't optimal ... and the fdi syntax isn't trivial
enough for everyone to adapt off-handedly.

Does it make sense to ignore volumes under /mnt but not under /media,
maybe?

I mean, it's not that I don't respect the wontfix, just that I think
that a little more discussion is warranted.

Cheers,

C.


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system>		<mount point>   <type>		<options>		<dump>  <pass>
proc            	/proc           proc    	defaults        	0       0
/dev/mapper/sda2_crypt 	/               ext3    	errors=remount-ro 	0       1
/dev/mapper/sda3_crypt 	none            swap    	sw              	0       0
/dev/sda1       	/boot           ext3    	defaults        	0       2
/dev/mapper/sda4_crypt  /home		ext3    	user_xattr	    	0       2
/dev/md0		/mnt/vault	ext3		user_xattr		0	2
/dev/mapper/md1_crypt   /mnt/scratch    ext3    	user_xattr   	 	0       2
/dev/scd0       	/media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 	user,noauto     	0       0


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser             3.106                add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                1.1.20-1             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info            20080215-1           Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6               2.7-6                GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.1.20-1             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.74-1               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1           1.95.8-4             XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1             1:4.3.0-1            GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.16.1-2             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1     0.5.10+git20080301-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1             0.5.10+git20080301-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1          0.13.13-1            Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6          4.3.0-1              The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4        2:0.1.12-9           userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0       0.114-2              libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base            3.1-24               Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount               2.13.1-2             Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils            1:2.2.10-1           Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils            0.99.2-3             utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev                0.114-2              /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils            0.73-7               Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                         2.1.5-6    ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn  libsmbios-bin                 <none>     (no description available)

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