After reviewing the patch further a few issues with
15_uuid_mount.patch presented themselves:
1. The logic to skip non-existent UUID= (and now LABEL=) mounts is
spurious---it only affects UID= mounts, while leaving intact
entries with non-existent device nodes, dangling symlinks to device
nodes, etc.
2. There is a memory leak introduced by 15_uuid_mount.patch: if the
fstab entry is skipped, mount_entry, mount_entry->device_path,
and mount_entry->mount_path all need to be freed.
Discussion with J. Mouette on #gnome-debian indicated that it would be
best to keep all the mount points, whether or not the device can be
found. The attached patch (again, to be applied after
15_uuid_mounts.patch) does that, fixing both of the above problems.
A more long-term solution would involve comparing filesystems by
st_dev rather than device_path; but it is not clear to me how to make
such a change without editing the GnomeVFSUnixMount structure and
potentially breaking binary compatibility.
--- gnome-vfs-2.22.0/libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-unix-mounts.c 2009-01-15 00:08:55.366081000 -0500
+++ gnome-vfs-2.22.0-new/libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-unix-mounts.c 2009-01-15 14:52:36.252107709 -0500
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@
mount_entry = g_new0 (GnomeVFSUnixMountPoint, 1);
- /* resolve symlinks */
+ /* resolve symlinks in the mount point */
if (realpath (mntent->mnt_dir, rpath))
mount_entry->mount_path = g_strdup (rpath);
else
@@ -593,28 +593,40 @@
mount_entry->device_path = g_strdup (mntent->mnt_fsname);
+ /* handle UUID= and LABEL= by trying equivalent /dev/disk/ links */
if(strlen(mount_entry->device_path) >= 5 && !strncmp (mount_entry->device_path, "UUID=", 5)) {
gchar *device_path;
device_path = g_strdup_printf ("/dev/disk/by-uuid/%s", mount_entry->device_path+5);
-
- if (g_file_test (device_path, G_FILE_TEST_IS_SYMLINK)) {
- char rpath[PATH_MAX];
- if (realpath (device_path, rpath)) {
- g_free (mount_entry->device_path);
- mount_entry->device_path = g_strdup (rpath);
- }
- else {
- g_free (device_path);
- continue;
- }
+ /* if the device does not exist, keep using the old name */
+ if (g_file_test (device_path, G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS)) {
+ g_free (mount_entry->device_path);
+ mount_entry->device_path = device_path;
+ } else {
+ g_free (device_path);
}
- else {
+ }
+ if(strlen(mount_entry->device_path) >= 6 && !strncmp (mount_entry->device_path, "LABEL=", 6)) {
+ gchar *device_path;
+
+ device_path = g_strdup_printf ("/dev/disk/by-label/%s", mount_entry->device_path+6);
+ /* if the device does not exist, keep using the old name */
+ if (g_file_test (device_path, G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS)) {
+ g_free (mount_entry->device_path);
+ mount_entry->device_path = device_path;
+ } else {
g_free (device_path);
- continue;
}
- g_free (device_path);
- }
+ }
+
+ /* resolve symlinks in the device */
+ if (g_file_test (mount_entry->device_path, G_FILE_TEST_IS_SYMLINK)) {
+ char rpath[PATH_MAX];
+ if (realpath (mount_entry->device_path, rpath)) {
+ g_free (mount_entry->device_path);
+ mount_entry->device_path = g_strdup(rpath);
+ }
+ }
mount_entry->filesystem_type = g_strdup (mntent->mnt_type);
--
Neil Moore, n...@s-z.org, http://s-z.org/neil/
