From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 9 15:06:26 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 A050516A400; Tue, 9 May 2006 15:06:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael@gargantuan.com) Received: from phoenix.gargantuan.com (srv01.lak.lwxdatacom.net [24.73.171.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B020143D6D; Tue, 9 May 2006 15:06:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michael@gargantuan.com) Received: by phoenix.gargantuan.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9473C529; Tue, 9 May 2006 11:06:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 11:06:13 -0400 From: "Michael W. Oliver" To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20060509150613.GB646@gargantuan.com> References: <445F9B85.3060907@FreeBSD.org> <445FC07E.6080702@elischer.org> <1147133198.84119.18.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <445FE332.1070904@samsco.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <445FE332.1070904@samsco.org> X-WWW-URL: http://michael.gargantuan.com X-GPG-PGP-Public-Key: http://michael.gargantuan.com/gnupg/pubkey.asc X-GPG-PGP-Fingerprint: 2694 0179 AE3F BFAE 0916 0BF5 B16B FBAB C5FA A3C9 X-Home-Phone: +1-863-816-8091 X-Mobile-Phone: +1-863-738-2334 X-Mailing-Address0: 8008 Apache Lane X-Mailing-Address1: Lakeland, FL X-Mailing-Address2: 33810-2172 X-Mailing-Address3: United States of America X-Guide-Questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html X-Guide-Netiquette: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r774 (FreeBSD) Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke , Julian Elischer , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [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: Tue, 09 May 2006 15:06:26 -0000 --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2006-05-08T18:32:50-0600, Scott Long wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:04 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >>> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >>>> >>>> [snip] >>>> >>>> /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. >>> >>> just doing a quick look around, I see that apple use /Volumes for this.. >> >> Yes. I've heard at least one objection to an uppercase directory name, >> but /Volumes or /volumes is certainly a possibility. > > I personally object to directory names that are longer than 5 characters > and shorter than 10 characters. I also object to the use of vowels, > most constanants, and any ascii character value lower than 255. All > directories should also default to mode 000 unless they are created > under another directory, in which case they should be 0000. I'm sure > that these are all perfectly reasonable objections that we can all agree > to. Bravo Scott, bravo! You have (hopefully) crushed this bikeshed early in it's life. See my emphasis above as to why my vote (as if _I_ would really have one...) would be for /media. There is no pre-existing /media, so you would think that adding it wouldn't break anything, and God knows that the developers could spend their time on more meaningful work than maintaining deltas for all dependencies for something as silly as a change from /media to /foo. Thanks FreeBSD developers, from a very appreciative consumer of your work. --=20 Mike Oliver, KI4OFU [see complete headers for contact information] --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEYK/lsWv7q8X6o8kRAvGxAKCEQ9IswMFWEtvy91FU/+GqSYaPLwCfVz63 VnCOI7ncxD+sEBTmXIjYHpU= =5V5K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz--