Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 23:40:24 +0200 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL Message-ID: <1147124424.2570.44.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060508185515.GB21933@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <445F84D2.9040207@FreeBSD.org> <20060508185515.GB21933@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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--=-6UoG7z+I25Ot7fOgDIyP Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:55 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:50:10PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is the best list for this, so if there is a better > > one, please let me know. >=20 > arch@ would probably be slightly closer. >=20 > > 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 /medi= a > > will require a lot of additional work in HAL-dependent ports to get > > those ports to recognize HAL-controlled mounts on FreeBSD. > >=20 > > 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 > It's a logical name for such a set of mounts and IMO we need this > feature. I say go for it. I'd second this, this is short enough and that's what I'm currently using :-) Kudos to the porting team \o/ --=20 Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer --=-6UoG7z+I25Ot7fOgDIyP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEX7rIMxEkbVFH3PQRAsu1AJ9ofJXfvxzwb1RZYiMwpTyZlw/udgCfRhaD NzulAUZJRIh55aB2C8GeTMA= =I0DS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-6UoG7z+I25Ot7fOgDIyP--
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