Re: Udisks uses ntfs instead of ntfs-3g

[Chris Marusich]

Pierre Neidhardt  writes:

> I've patched ntfs-3g to symlink mount.ntfs to mount.ntfs-3g and it works
> as expected.  If the new ntfs-3g is installed as a system package, that
> is to say.

Nice!

> Indeed, libmount seems to only look in
>
>   /run/current-system/profile/sbin/mount.*
>
> and not in
>
>   ~/.guix-profile/sbin/mount.*.
>
> Is this the behaviour we really want?  Maybe, considering libmount is fairly
> low level.  Any insights?

Does libmount provide any run-time control over how it finds these
things?  For example, is there an environment variable or a
configuration file that controls where it looks?  If so, we might be
able to customize it, or at least a user might be able to use it to tell
libmount where to look.  I don't know much about libmount currently,
which is why I'm asking.

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Re: Udisks uses ntfs instead of ntfs-3g

[Pierre Neidhardt]

I've patched ntfs-3g to symlink mount.ntfs to mount.ntfs-3g and it works
as expected.  If the new ntfs-3g is installed as a system package, that
is to say.

Indeed, libmount seems to only look in

/run/current-system/profile/sbin/mount.*

and not in

~/.guix-profile/sbin/mount.*.

Is this the behaviour we really want?  Maybe, considering libmount is fairly
low level.  Any insights?

To see that you can try the following command:

--8<---cut here---start->8---
> sudo LIBMOUNT_DEBUG=all mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
5132: libmount: INIT: library debug mask: 0x
[...]
5132: libmount:  CXT: [0x2162690]: 
/run/current-system/profile/sbin/mount.ntfs ... not found
[...]
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

See https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/532 for more
details.

I'll submit a patch soon.

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Re: Udisks uses ntfs instead of ntfs-3g

[Joshua Branson]

Pierre Neidhardt  writes:

> I also noticed that Guix packaged version is 2.1.8 which is fairly old.
> Latest release is 2.7.6.
>
> I can submit a patch.

Please do.

Re: Udisks uses ntfs instead of ntfs-3g

[Pierre Neidhardt]

I also noticed that Guix packaged version is 2.1.8 which is fairly old.
Latest release is 2.7.6.

I can submit a patch.

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Re: Udisks uses ntfs instead of ntfs-3g

[Pierre Neidhardt]

Done: https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/532.

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Re: Udisks uses ntfs instead of ntfs-3g

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pierre Neidhardt  skribis:

> Udisks mounts external NTFS partitions using the NTFS kernel module
> (read-only) instead of ntfs-3g (read-write).  I would assume that if the
> users have ntfs-3g installed, they probably want to use it by default
>
> I haven't tested it, but I think symlinking mount.ntfs to ntfs-3g is
> enough to get Udisks to use ntfs-3g by default.
>
> (It's what https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G seems to suggest
> at least.)
>
> What do you think?

The change would be fine by me, but perhaps it would make sense to
discuss it with upstream Udisks people?

Ludo’.

Udisks uses ntfs instead of ntfs-3g

[Pierre Neidhardt]

Udisks mounts external NTFS partitions using the NTFS kernel module
(read-only) instead of ntfs-3g (read-write).  I would assume that if the
users have ntfs-3g installed, they probably want to use it by default

I haven't tested it, but I think symlinking mount.ntfs to ntfs-3g is
enough to get Udisks to use ntfs-3g by default.

(It's what https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G seems to suggest
at least.)

What do you think?

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