[Usbmount-commit] r30 - in trunk/usbmount: . debian

[Martin Dickopp]

Author: mdickopp-guest
Date: 2005-07-08 09:35:03 +0000 (Fri, 08 Jul 2005)
New Revision: 30

Modified:
   trunk/usbmount/README
   trunk/usbmount/debian/changelog
Log:
New section about the vfat filesystem type added to the README file.


Modified: trunk/usbmount/README
===================================================================
--- trunk/usbmount/README	2005-07-05 20:52:00 UTC (rev 29)
+++ trunk/usbmount/README	2005-07-08 09:35:03 UTC (rev 30)
@@ -21,6 +21,24 @@
 describe how to configure the package.
 
 
+Vfat Filesystems
+----------------
+
+Filesystems of type vfat are not considered by default, despite being
+popular for many USB devices, because the Linux kernel does not yet
+fully implement sync-mounting for this filesystem type. This means that
+you risk losing data or even corrupting the filesystem if you remove the
+medium before all data has been written to it. If you include vfat in
+the FILESYSTEMS configuration variable, you *MUST* run the 'sync'
+command before removing the device.
+
+A useful configuration for vfat filesystems is to include a string like
+-fstype=vfat,gid=floppy,dmask=0007,fmask=0117 in the FS_MOUNTOPTIONS
+variable. These mount options have the effect that members of the floppy
+group can read from and write to the medium, but nobody else can access
+it.
+
+
 Hook Scripts
 ------------
 

Modified: trunk/usbmount/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/usbmount/debian/changelog	2005-07-05 20:52:00 UTC (rev 29)
+++ trunk/usbmount/debian/changelog	2005-07-08 09:35:03 UTC (rev 30)
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
     'vol_id' and its output has changed (closes: #317022). Depend on
     udev (>= 0.060-1). Without this change, usbmount doesn't work at
     all with udev 0.060, therefore urgency=medium.
+  * New section about the vfat filesystem type added to the README file
+    (closes: #316758).
 
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