On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 09:27:51PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > From: Ted Unangst <[email protected]>
> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Mark Kettenis <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > (...) I don't really agree with Tedu that the
> > > changed behaviour is an improvement. Say I have configured
> > > hotplugd(8) such that it automatically mounts things when I plug in my
> > > camera. Now I reboot my machine, without unplugging the camera.
> > > Previously hotplugd(8) would remount things upon boot. Now suddenly
> > > it doesn't and I have to unplug and replug the camera.
> >
> > I think the solution to that is to make adding the duid to fstab work.
> > At boot, if the duid exists, it's mounted. If it doesn't, it doesn't
> > mount but also doesn't error out. This may already work even, I
> > haven't tried it.
>
> Sorry, but a FAT-formatted USB device (which most cameras effectively
> are) will never have a duid.
FAT has volume labels; I'm not saying that too much hackery would be
desirable, but it's not impossible to abuse these as a kind-of-duid.
Joachim
