hal and ntfs-3g

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 22:24 +0100, Stefan Hauser wrote:
> > > since i have a few ntfs partitions on my laptop, i use them also much from
> > > freebsd. so far, i just hat mount_ntfs point to ntfs-3g, since i need write
> > > ability too. now i noticed, this won't work with hal mounting. 
> > > after browsing trough gconf, i found exactly, what i need:
> > > /system/storage/default_options/ntfs/fstype_override
> > > ok, set it to ntfs-3g. but, no go. default option there is locale=, and this
> > > is not in the allowed section for ntfs..
>  [....]
> > > so, /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi needs
> > > some addition, i guess.
> > 
> > I've been looking for someone with ntfs-3g foo to help here.  I don't
> > have any NTFS volumes, and I don't use fuse.  There were some threads on
> > this list a while ago with some things to try.  If you could put
> > together a list of changes that work for you, I would be happy to commit
> > them.
> 
> hmm. not as easy, as i was guessing. at least not with 7.x.
> 6.3 /sbin/mount constructs a mount_type with whatever type was specified with
> -t, so, no problem to introduce new filesystems.
> 7.x /sbin/mount has a fixed list compiled in, so mount -t ntfs-3g fails.

Yeah, this is starting to sound familiar.

> 
> i think, the best solution would be to have a little helper programm, which
> does the effective mount. at least, for fbsd 7.x

What does the fuse maintainer have to say about this?  I'm sure users
have complained about this before.  What's the recommended way to mount
fuse volumes?

Joe

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