Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 23:09:49 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: m m <needacoder@gmail.com> Cc: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD Message-ID: <1147230589.45319.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1e4841eb0605091838u39a46dfw81cc9f452d9722b6@mail.gmail.com> References: <1e4841eb0605091838u39a46dfw81cc9f452d9722b6@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-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--
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