From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 22 17:11:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7157516A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:11:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D6DC43FBD for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:11:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: from blues.seekingfire.prv (blues.seekingfire.prv [192.168.23.211]) by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19EBB3B for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:11:07 -0600 (CST) Received: (from tillman@localhost) by blues.seekingfire.prv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id hAN1B6U21371 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:11:06 -0600 Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:11:06 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031122191106.A17699@seekingfire.com> References: <20031121144116.A712D7E40E@server2.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from cswiger@mac.com on Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 02:18:30PM -0500 X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers Subject: Re: FreeBSD, FHS, and /mnt/cdrom X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:11:09 -0000 On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 02:18:30PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > Obviously, a standard that says "place mount points anywhere you want" > isn't very useful. But if you did come up with a standard, who should > follow it and what would they gain? I don't want to speak for the FHS, but I do want to point out that such a standard is indeed useful. This discussion around a standard location for media mounts is but a small part of the complete FHS standard. As such, it can legitimately say "do this", say "do anything but this" or say "not covered by this standard". All three have distinct meanings and implications. To the designer of an FHS-compliant distribution, the third means that they have free reign to do want they want and still claim FHS compliance (assuming they follow the /rest/ of the standard :-) ). -T -- >You can't remotely manage an etch-a-sketch. Oh, I dunno... I reckon you could do it pretty well. All you'd need is a beefy vibrating pager attached/built-in to the etch-a-sketch. Instant remote management... - A.S.R. quote (Peter da Silva, Peter Williams)