Bug 197916

Summary: sysutils/hal: hald doesn't create records for ZFS mount points
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Yuri Victorovich <yuri>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-gnome (Nobody) <gnome>
Status: Closed Overcome By Events    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: 0mp, arved, w.schwarzenfeld
Priority: --- Keywords: needs-qa
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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kde4 program that lists mount points (using HAL) none

Description Yuri Victorovich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-02-22 11:56:29 UTC 
UFS disks have this line in their hald descriptor:
> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names = {'Mount', 'Unmount', 'Eject'}
And ZFS disks don't have method_names

As a result, this kde code fails to find ZFS mount points:
>  foreach (const Solid::Device &device, Solid::Device::listFromType(Solid::DeviceInterface::StorageAccess)) {
>    qDebug() << "mount=" << device.as<Solid::StorageAccess>()->filePath() << " udi="<<device.udi();
>  }

KDE uses this line to test for the mounted storage device (in kdelibs):
> prop("org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names").toStringList().contains("Mount")

Particular symptom that lead me to this is that sysutils/filelight-kde4 crosses into ZFS file systems when it is asked to scan only one file system.
Comment 1 Yuri Victorovich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-02-23 19:32:55 UTC 
In short, hald doesn't create the record for ZFS mounts.

It appears that hald creates device records based on /dev/, /dev/label/, and /dev/gpt*/ entries. However, for ZFS there is no 1-1 relationship between the mount point and device, and devices can be dynamically added or removed. It should create the separate entry for every ZFS mount point as well, which isn't based on /dev/ hierarchy.
Comment 2 Yuri Victorovich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-02-26 01:49:26 UTC 
Created attachment 153536 [details]
kde4 program that lists mount points (using HAL)

Attaching sample kde4 project that prints all mount points, obtained from hal.
Comment 3 Walter Schwarzenfeld 2018-01-11 18:46:47 UTC 
No maintainer feedback till now!
Comment 4 Walter Schwarzenfeld 2019-08-16 14:39:45 UTC 
Any news here?
Comment 5 Mateusz Piotrowski freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-02-08 10:56:33 UTC 
HAL has been removed from the ports tree in https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=564691. I'm closing this issue for now because of that.