Re: [PATCH] use pmount instead of mount for hotpluggable device

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 11:00 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Montag, den 13.02.2006, 11:07 -0500 schrieb David Zeuthen:
> > I also think runtime detection of what mount helper to use royally
> > sucks, it just makes the code look like spaghetti and it's a source of
> > confusion for users. 
> 
> When pmount is installed, isn't it meant to "manage" /media, i.e. is it
> bad to assume that everything going on in /media is pmount-related, and
> all the other mount points are not?

Yes, that assumption is not valid. For example, gnome-mount also
"manages" /media (via hal methods) and the user is of course free to
create his own entries and use /etc/fstab. FHS mentions /media too

 http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT

>From an end user point of view you either want gnome-mount or pmount
installed but probably not both at the same time. They solve the same
problem but in a different ways and the projects have different goals.

> Also, when gnome-mount is used, the (p)mount code will only be reached
> when the HAL UDI is NULL.

Yes, that's right, one useful example of this is for entries
in /etc/fstab that the user created himself. Also useful for passworded
smb-mounts in /etc/fstab IIRC.

Btw, on a related note I've got a little fix to gnome-vfs for using
gnome-mount for unmounting some of these for problematic drives like PC
floppy drives and IDE zip drives. Will submit patch this weekend.

    David