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Bug 487547 - Use flush and utf8 options for vfat by default
Use flush and utf8 options for vfat by default
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-mount
Classification: Deprecated
Component: programs
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail)
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-10-17 16:00 UTC by JP Rosevear
Modified: 2012-02-28 12:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
patch (618 bytes, patch)
2007-10-17 16:02 UTC, JP Rosevear 		none Details | Review
utf8/flush defaults (623 bytes, patch)
2007-11-21 14:19 UTC, JP Rosevear 		none Details | Review

Description JP Rosevear 2007-10-17 16:00:45 UTC 
We should default to using flush for vfat, helps prevent data los.
Comment 1 JP Rosevear 2007-10-17 16:02:43 UTC 
Created attachment 97362 [details] [review]
patch

Note, g-v-m has been doing this for a while if the option was exposed in hal.
Comment 2 JP Rosevear 2007-11-21 14:19:57 UTC 
Created attachment 99440 [details] [review]
utf8/flush defaults

Update to include utf8 as the default for vfat as well.
Comment 3 Hedayat Vatankhah 2008-11-05 21:48:44 UTC 
Please add utf8 option for mounting vfat filesystems. It is extremely needed or else gnome will fail to work correctly in many localized environments. (e.g. I'm unable to create a new "untitiled folder" in my USB stick since I'm using fa locale and gnome is unable to create an untitled folder with its localized name, it is in UTF-8 format)
Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2009-01-19 12:32:15 UTC 
Any news on this one?

Thanks
Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2009-01-19 12:38:37 UTC 
Maybe noatime option would also help with performance:
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=36051
Comment 6 Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle 2009-10-04 16:02:09 UTC 
HAL depends on gnome-mount to enable the correct character encoding. This is already done my newbie-friendly distros, but I don't see any reason to don't have this upstream ASAP.
Comment 7 André Klapper 2012-02-28 12:30:10 UTC 
"gnome-mount" will not see active development anymore according to its developers (as HAL is also dead).
Closing this report as WONTFIX - Please feel free to reopen this bug report in
the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.