Package: hal
Version: 0.4.8-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
A section in the policy file
/usr/share/hal/fdi/90defaultpolicy/storage-policy.fdi
correctly mentions in its comment about the need to mount flash devices with
async and noatime options to avoid wearing out of the flash disks.
However the secion is commented out to have no effect,
and also the boolean value of its sync part is wrong.
The current description is this:
<!-- Mounting with sync wears out flash disk too much, thus disable it by
default
<match key="volume.size" compare_lt="2147483648">
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">true</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noatime" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="true">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">true</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noatime" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
-->
This should be corrected like so:
<!-- Mounting with sync wears out flash disk too much, thus disable it by
default -->
<match key="volume.size" compare_lt="2147483648">
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">false</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noatime" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="true">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">false</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noatime" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii adduser 3.64 Add and remove users and groups
ii dbus-1 0.23.4-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii dbus-glib-1 0.23.4-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libhal-storage0 0.4.8-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libhal0 0.4.8-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii pciutils 1:2.1.11-15 Linux PCI Utilities
ii udev 0.056-3 /dev/ management daemon
ii usbutils 0.70-8 USB console utilities
hal recommends no packages.
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