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Date:      Wed, 11 May 2005 11:51:35 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HAL on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <1115826695.14760.27.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <20050511174624.i1qju123w48wcgo0@netchild.homeip.net>
References:  <4281C469.2090102@kepa.fi> <20050511102352.J27884@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20050511174624.i1qju123w48wcgo0@netchild.homeip.net>

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On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:46 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote:
>=20
> > FreeBSD does have /mnt.  Subdirectories under there might be a good ide=
a.
> > For example, /mnt/media/* or /mnt/hal/media/*.  I think this would be
> > easier to find that something buried multiple levels deep.
>=20
> Some thoughts:
> - /mnt/hal/ suggests (at least to those which know what it may be) that
>    there are mountpoints which are controled by something.

HAL would be controlling them.

> - Do have /mnt/hal/media/* and /mnt/media/* to be that deep?
> - Some (a lot) docs refer to mounting someting to /mnt or /mnt2, using
>    /mnt/XXX would result in unwanted behavior if someone follows
>    those docs.
> - Does it hurt to add a new directory to the rootfs and to hier(7)
>    for the purpose of algorithm controled mounting?

Yeah, this makes a lot of sense.  Getting people to agree on this might
be tough, though.  Probably something that should be done, then
apologize after the fact.

Joe

>=20
> Bye,
> Alexander.
>=20
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