From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 8 19:26:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 8F19916A402 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 19:26:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (bantam.cisco.com [64.102.19.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A5343D53 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 19:26:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k48JQrU12485 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 15:26:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [64.102.192.234] (dhcp-64-102-192-234.cisco.com [64.102.192.234]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k48JQrm25873 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 15:26:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <445F9B85.3060907@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 15:27:01 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Macintosh/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: [Fwd: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL] 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: Mon, 08 May 2006 19:26:55 -0000 -----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 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-----