Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 17:21:35 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL] Message-ID: <20060509002135.GA317@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <1147133198.84119.18.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <445F9B85.3060907@FreeBSD.org> <445FC07E.6080702@elischer.org> <1147133198.84119.18.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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--VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 08:06:38PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:04 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >=20 > > >-----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 /med= ia > > >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. > > > =20 > > > > >=20 > > just doing a quick look around, I see that apple use /Volumes for this.. >=20 > Yes. I've heard at least one objection to an uppercase directory name, > but /Volumes or /volumes is certainly a possibility. IMO being the same modulo case would be a bad idea. Edit-distance one-bit seems a bit small. For that matter, this being largely a GUI thing, what Linux does is a heck of a lot more relevent than what MacOS does since we don't and realisticaly never will share a GUI with MacOS. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEX+COXY6L6fI4GtQRAvxOAJ4pDz/XXwD6WZmg/VCQcyi86ShVEACfTHgy 3somxe3oBYbQo5V6fejg2cM= =K829 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb--
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