Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 01:09:01 -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: <1147237741.45319.50.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1e4841eb0605092016r701e9bb3uc3e02dbd3e0ebf6a@mail.gmail.com> References: <1e4841eb0605091838u39a46dfw81cc9f452d9722b6@mail.gmail.com> <1147230589.45319.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1e4841eb0605092016r701e9bb3uc3e02dbd3e0ebf6a@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-47wmZ7d4CM/jAKR1/qPL Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 23:16 -0400, m m wrote: > On 5/9/06, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote: > /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=20 > mounted under /media in directories > like /media/floppy, /media/disk, > and /media/VOLUME (where VOLUME is the label on the CD). >=20 > Thanks - that does clear it up, however... It seems less intrusive > (/ already has too much in there) and in my opinion better name match > to use=20 > /mnt/temp for "temporary mount" and /mnt/floppy and /mnt/disk > and /mnt/VOLUME, etc for "other" mount points... Since you're > changing things anyway, this seems like a better choice - plus it has > the benefit of being "backward compatible" without introducing more / > directories.=20 It's not backwards compatible if system administrators are already using it as a mount point itself. In that case we're trying to create mount points within a mounted file system. Plus, one of the big things adding /media is will help is HAL support on FreeBSD. If we picked another name, this would mean additional FreeBSD-specific hacks on ports that expect removable media mounts to exist under /media. Joe --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-47wmZ7d4CM/jAKR1/qPL 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) iD8DBQBEYXVtb2iPiv4Uz4cRApihAJ9FfXL0cN+BW4l8hyTKiBcBr+lr3wCfYBv6 PIADjVFqwBe/aM/U+D761kM= =lAq4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-47wmZ7d4CM/jAKR1/qPL--
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