This patch fixes: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487547 It adds: utf8, flush and noatime options to defaults for mounting vfat partitions Seems to work fine for me Thanks :-) Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 181008 [details, diff] gnome-mount-0.8-vfat.patch
This is partly (utf8 option) a dupe of bug #254566. And seems that gnome team is not willing to fix. I don't know if they want to add noatime though. PS: I still think that utf8 should be the default.
ACK for noatime, WHYNOT for flush, NAK for utf8.
(In reply to comment #3) > ACK for noatime, WHYNOT for flush, NAK for utf8. > Why not for utf8? It seems to work ok and UTF8 is being used by default in a lot of other gentoo portions, it is being also used in other distributions like opensuse, ubuntu and mandriva
I would feel very bad if we enabled it and then some user complained that Windows or OS X erased or corrupted a file with a broken filename. Don't get me wrong, I use UTF-8 everywhere I can, yet I feel that for this particular area (people's data), we should be as conservative as possible. FAT is a legacy file system and should definitely be considered as such. Thanks
confirming remi's opinion about the changes. utf-8 option has already been discussed in another bug report and it is a definite no.
No problem, I understand your position :-)
in tree with 0.8-r1. Thanks for patch and reporting.
