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On 07/12/2011 05:45 PM, David Zeuthen wrote:
> It's not necessarily something that happens a lot but it happens
> frequently enough to warrant being careful. And while it's nice to
> just hand-wave "oh, you should have turned off the automounter" or
>
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I would think that a server admin in such a comparatively VERY rare setup
> could be bothered to change the system policy to disable automount
It's not necessarily something that happens a lot but it happens
frequently enough to warrant
On 7/12/2011 3:57 PM, David Zeuthen wrote:
As I've already explained GNOME does this for devices connected via
USB/Firewire (99% of all flash readers) or for devices specifically
tagged as being flash readers (covering flash readers connected via
SDIO). So it's fine, GNOME is doing the right thin
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 7/12/2011 11:47 AM, David Zeuthen wrote:
>>
>> Btw, this is how Nautilus and the GTK+ file chooser already work: if
>> you click the volume icon and the device is not mounted, then we mount
>> it (normally takes< 0.1s) and then you ge
On 7/12/2011 11:47 AM, David Zeuthen wrote:
Btw, this is how Nautilus and the GTK+ file chooser already work: if
you click the volume icon and the device is not mounted, then we mount
it (normally takes< 0.1s) and then you get to see its contents. The
only difference, really, is a) that you don'
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:00 AM, David Zeuthen wrote:
> I think the only workable solution is that the user interface simply
> doesn't expose whether a device with mountable filesystem is actually
> mounted or not - some sort of clever mount-on-demand thing.
> Unfortunately POSIX doesn't rea
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> And how are they supposed to determine that?
By default nothing happens - as I said, the feature is mainly there
for hobbyists.
> At the end of the day, you either need to decide if you want to auto
> mount new, unrecognized filesystems
