Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 15:27:01 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Fwd: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL] Message-ID: <445F9B85.3060907@FreeBSD.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Forwarding to arch@ at brooks' suggestion. - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 13:50:10 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org I'm not sure if this is the best list for this, so if there is a better one, please let me know. jylefort and I have been working on porting HAL (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal) to FreeBSD. The port is working quite well. One of the things it wants to do is mount removable media such as CDs, USB sticks, etc. to mount points under /media. Some of us had discussed alternatives to /media (e.g. /mnt/media and ${PREFIX}/media), but these were ruled out. /mnt/media is bad since /mnt is reserved for temporary mounts. ${PREFIX}/media (i.e. /usr/local/media) just doesn't seem like an appropriate place for file system mount points. In fact, any other location other than /media will require a lot of additional work in HAL-dependent ports to get those ports to recognize HAL-controlled mounts on FreeBSD. To that end, I would like to add a /media to FreeBSD. I would like to add this to hier(7) as well as BSD.root.mtree. Would this be permissible? Thanks. Joe - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEX5uFb2iPiv4Uz4cRArXiAJ9kXbtvgkzg/XYTLlaZ0dy+7JpcxgCffVoW u3fWVf4XgUh6B9r0GYY6G9o= =q8Uf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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