exo-mount ignores HAL volume mount options 'sync' and 'noatime'
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Exo |
In Progress
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Unknown
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exo (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Lionel Le Folgoc | ||
xubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Lionel Le Folgoc |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: libexo-0.3-0
HAL lets users set mount options for block devices in /etc/hal/
Among these are 'sync' and 'noatime'
When Xubuntu systems are being used in public or school labs, it is valuable to force USB drives to mount SYNC/NOATIME to insure that naive users who remove drives without explicitly ejecting them (VERY COMMON) do not lose data.
To this end, Inveneo (http://
Unfortunately, exo-mount (and gnome-mount, but that's a different bug) does NOT respect these values!
The attached patch updates the libexo-
Changed in exo: | |
assignee: | nobody → mrpouit |
Changed in exo: | |
status: | Unknown → In Progress |
Wouldn't it be better to send this patch upstream? It's not really xubuntu specific.