Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 22:24:15 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org>, flz@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org, marcus@freebsd.org, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@gmail.com>, needacoder@gmail.com Subject: Re: Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD Message-ID: <200605112224.18042.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060511153306.791b6170.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> References: <1e4841eb0605091838u39a46dfw81cc9f452d9722b6@mail.gmail.com> <52b3de6f0605100610m76d1f63pff216ee866837459@mail.gmail.com> <20060511153306.791b6170.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thursday 11 May 2006 15:33, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2006 10:10:22 -0300 > > "Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez" <rnsanchez@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 5/10/06, Florent Thoumie <flz@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > The main idea behind using /media is to reduce the porting efforts, > > > read Marcus' posts. > > > > > > PS: This really is bikeshedding. > > > > I completely agree -- that's why (I wrote that) I don't have strong > > objections. I may be misusing /mnt for ages. :) > > We should just change the wording everywhere to "/mnt is there > so users can create directories underneath. These directories > may then be used as mount points for various devices." It's not just changing the text, but behavior that has been hard-wired into FreeBSD users all over the planet for the past N years. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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