[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#497463: Bug#497463: hal: kernel ntfs driver does not support locale= option, KDE fails to mount ntfs volumes

[Michael Biebl]

Michael Biebl wrote:

> 
> Possible solutions:
> 1.) Make KDE use ntfs-3g as default ntfs driver. Same behaviour as gnome-mount,
> requires gnome-mount to be installed. If ntfs is used as fstype, don't pass 

Hrm, I meant: "requires ntfs-3g to be installed"

> locale option to hal.
> 2.) Modify 20-storage-methods.fdi to only allow the locale= option for ntfs-3g
> and ntfs-fuse
> 3.) Make ntfs-3g install a symlink /sbin/mount.ntfs pointing to /usr/bin/ntfs-3g.
> This why ntfs-3g will be used by default for ntfs volumes, even if fstype is not 
> explicitely specified. If ntfs-3g is not installed, this will still fail.

As additional note, option 3.) was apparently chosen by Ubuntu.

Forgot to mention option
4.) Update the in-kernel ntfs driver to support locale=. I don't know
how feasible that is an it's probably not fixable for lenny.

Michael


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