Re: Gnomevfs and fuse filesystem support

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 16:35 +0200, Florent Mertens wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm actually thinking on a way to integrate ntfs-3g in the gnome desktop
> to be able to use it as default in the future, and so i have some
> questions to ask you.
> For those who don't know it yet, ntfs-3g is an ntfs driver based on
> ntfsmount which provide full read/write support to any ntfs partition.
> To make it more secure, it use the fuse interface, and so is in fact a
> virtual filesystem.
> And here is the problem. Because it's a virtual filesystem, hal don't
> match it with an existant partition (different block.major &
> block.minor) and so set the ntfs partition mounted with fuse to unmount.
> Gnome-vfs apparently check mtab & hal to create volume.
> When hal is disable, checking only in mtab work and it create a volume,
> but when hal is enable, because the partition found in mtab is set to
> unmount in hal, it don't create volume, leaving the impression that the
> partition is unmounted (even if it's not the case).
> 
> So here is my question is it easily possible, to disable the hal check
> for a certain type of filesystem (here fuse), so it will create & remove
> volume for this case only with the information of mtab.
> 
> An other possibility, could be to make hal recognize fuse fs and make it
> match with the existant partition (by a way or an other), but i don't
> think this implementation is correct, because, device mounted with fuse
> are 'soft mounted' and not 'hard mounted', so i think it's better to let
> the job to gnome-vfs. But i might be wrong (i'll ask hal guys to know
> what they think about that)
> 
> What do you guys think ?

Sounds like you should chat with the hal developers about this.

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