Paul, I am quite happy thinking of it as a new feature. That said, If you think it appropriate, I'll need some guidance as I've never done a ticket. The symptom acts identically on an updated fedora 14 as it does on the os16 XO, so where would I go to file the ticket?
KG On Sunday, April 24, 2011, Paul Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > kevin wrote: > > Sascha: > > > > > > Continued to play with this. Went into nautilus on an ext2 formatted > > card, and there is a checkbox in the panel for allowing execution of > > files. The owner and other permission boxes didn't seem to do > > anything; but, clicking that on *did* work. Also, you were correct > > about it needing to not be FAT, checking that box, even though it sill > > displays, didn't 'stick' for FAT. Thanks. > > i've lost track of where exactly this issue sits, but if it's > a regression, i suggest opening a ticket. then it can be resolved > in a documented fashion (whether fixed as bug or "wontfix"ed as > a feature). > > paul > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > KG > > > > On Monday, April 18, > > 2011, Kevin Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sascha: > > > > > > The file system actually had no bearing on the issue I was having, > whether > > ext2, > > > ext3, or FAT32, the symptoms were identical - recent versions of udisks > now > > does not allow > > > 'direct' execution of scripts from auto-mounted removable media. > > > > > > Also, > > > there is some debate as to whether putting a journalling fs onto an SD > > > or USB drive is wise, as it might half its life by in essence doubling > the > > number of writes. In > > > general, I tend to stick with the factory default unless I need > > > multiple partitions, symbolic link, or specific linux-swap support, > since I > > presume the > > > manufacturer has formatted it with the right number of blocks, units, > > > etc to best match their controller/memory config. If I need those, I > will > > still use ext2. Call me optimistic :-) > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > KG > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Sascha Silbe > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Excerpts from Kevin Gordon's message of Mon Apr 18 00:36:26 +0200 2011: > > > > > >> But, since my main use of this technique is to > > >> semi-automate the process of installing a slew of custom activities and > > >> rpm's upon initial build and deployment, having to manually change every > > >> machine manually to basically avoid 5 keystrokes, was sort of > > >> counter-productive :-) > > > > > > If you're only using this USB stick with Linux machines, why don't you > > > just format it using a file system with POSIX semantics, i.e. ext3? > > > > > > Sascha > > > > > > -- > > > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > > > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > =--------------------- > paul fox, [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
