From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 12:58:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAA0C16A427 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 12:58:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnsanchez@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC58E43D72 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 12:57:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rnsanchez@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m51so717517pye for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 05:57:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kyev8WY8IVnTL//XDZwLmd4EqteK26VzfTm0Fi5CDnzetdLi1RlgtR83z1xvQgdtPwz98RP4ML1qHdd/QzmPA6RcdMNBocErgxGJkjYG6V+633BWFht7X61+IVdwfZFhCOXPaSKjjkssPhN+g646Bjp0wNnNuRTTmrMNyKgYHyI= Received: by 10.35.99.14 with SMTP id b14mr1129790pym; Wed, 10 May 2006 05:57:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.115.7 with HTTP; Wed, 10 May 2006 05:57:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52b3de6f0605100557u792b74b8i75bf1a01fd868d7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:57:55 -0300 From: "Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez" To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" In-Reply-To: <1147237741.45319.50.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <1e4841eb0605091838u39a46dfw81cc9f452d9722b6@mail.gmail.com> <1147230589.45319.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1e4841eb0605092016r701e9bb3uc3e02dbd3e0ebf6a@mail.gmail.com> <1147237741.45319.50.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, m m Subject: Re: Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 12:58:08 -0000 On 5/10/06, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > It's not backwards compatible if system administrators are already using > it as a mount point itself. In that case we're trying to create mount > points within a mounted file system. Plus, one of the big things > adding /media is will help is HAL support on FreeBSD. If we picked > another name, this would mean additional FreeBSD-specific hacks on ports > that expect removable media mounts to exist under /media. I don't have strong reasons to object against /media, I just think that this covers applications' errors assuming /media exists and contains removable media mount points. Or, more specifically, HAL's assumption of /media, instead of accepting some configuration parameter telling where it should look for removable-media mount points. Personally I'd mount removable media under /mnt (as I always did) and change HAL to accept configuration like this, specifying where it should look for instead of assuming /media. Perhaps this affects less users. -- Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez GNU/Linux #140696 [http://counter.li.org] Slackware Linux + FreeBSD