Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:27:52 -0600 From: Marc Wiz <marc@wiz.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and FHS summary Message-ID: <20031125202752.GG30833@wiz.com> In-Reply-To: <200311252111.30988.murphyf%2Bfhs@f-m.fm> References: <20031121144116.A712D7E40E@server2.messagingengine.com> <200311252111.30988.murphyf%2Bfhs@f-m.fm>
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:11:28PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > > Before going back to the FHS list, I'd like to summarize what I think the > opinions here were. Please correct me if I'm horribly off-base. > > The idea of defining a default directory to hold directories for recurring > temporary mount points is considered to be a good one, though it's use should > be optional. Putting these in / would be a bad idea, because it would clutter > up the root directory. Putting these in /mnt would be a bad idea because lots > of people expect that directory to be empty to be used for temporary ad hoc > mount points. Also, the FHS shouldn't try to define all the names of these > mount point directories. > > Putting this directory into /usr, /tmp, or any of the other well-defined > top-level directories doesn't make any sense. But perhaps a directory in /var > would be a good idea, but some people thought that it sounded wierd, and > there were some technical [1] reasons [2] why it might be a bad idea. > > Some recommended top-level directories were: > > /fs, /tfs, /mounts, /volumes, /mnts > May I suggest /tmounts or /tmnts? If people are concerned about lots of directories being created in /'s file system then the top-level directory could itself be a file system. It would be nice if the name of the directory could be obtained via sysconf (3). Marc -- Marc Wiz marc@wiz.com Yes, that really is my last name.
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