From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 03:09:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 3EB5116A400; Wed, 10 May 2006 03:09:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (creme-brulee.marcuscom.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A060D43D46; Wed, 10 May 2006 03:09:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4A3A3XQ046579; Tue, 9 May 2006 23:10:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: m m In-Reply-To: <1e4841eb0605091838u39a46dfw81cc9f452d9722b6@mail.gmail.com> References: <1e4841eb0605091838u39a46dfw81cc9f452d9722b6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-xEgNw4N4KPG3gS0vOFOI" Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 23:09:49 -0400 Message-Id: <1147230589.45319.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: Maxime Henrion , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD 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: Wed, 10 May 2006 03:09:55 -0000 --=-xEgNw4N4KPG3gS0vOFOI Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 21:38 -0400, m m wrote: > >> Since the overall consensus is to add a root directory > called /media to > >> accommodate removable media mount points (e.g. those managed by > HAL), I > >> have drawn up the following patch. Since I am a ports/doc > committer,=20 > >> could a src committer approve this patch so that I can commit it? > Thanks. > >> > >> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/media.diff > > > > Even though I'm quite reluctant to add root directories in general, > > this one sounds like a sane idea. The name is generic enough to > > my taste, so we can hope we're not going to need to add other=20 > > directories for that purpose. Besides, anything that can help us > > catch up a bit on the HAL side is good in my opinion. So, this > > looks good to me. >=20 > My understanding is that such a directory already exists - /mnt=20 > At least this is what "man hier" says about it: > /mnt/ empty directory commonly used by system administrators > as a temporary mount point > is "temporary" somehow different from "removable" in this case?=20 /mnt is designed to hold one mount point temporarily (e.g. I want to mount an NFS file system to test NFS, or to get at a file quickly). /media differs in that it is a directory to hold multiple mount points. Say I insert a CD, floppy, and USB drive. All would be mounted under /media in directories like /media/floppy, /media/disk, and /media/VOLUME (where VOLUME is the label on the CD). Joe --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-xEgNw4N4KPG3gS0vOFOI 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) iD8DBQBEYVl9b2iPiv4Uz4cRAk0FAJ9IGr16pBxD48L3TbSR0knZhyFlewCdE+IU FVS6W/5n4ueHYzDiXGrE66k= =e029 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xEgNw4N4KPG3gS0vOFOI--