From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 8 22:41:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0857916A400; Mon, 8 May 2006 22:41:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org (xbsd.org [82.233.2.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D5843D45; Mon, 8 May 2006 22:41:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38B011672; Tue, 9 May 2006 00:40:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 55623-05; Tue, 9 May 2006 00:40:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cream.stl.xbsd.org (unknown [193.120.13.130]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1D7611498; Tue, 9 May 2006 00:40:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Florent Thoumie To: Brooks Davis In-Reply-To: <20060508185515.GB21933@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <445F84D2.9040207@FreeBSD.org> <20060508185515.GB21933@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-6UoG7z+I25Ot7fOgDIyP" Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 23:40:24 +0200 Message-Id: <1147124424.2570.44.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke Subject: Re: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 22:41:01 -0000 --=-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--