From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 10:00:47 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 0D54316A402; Wed, 10 May 2006 10:00:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A11C643D45; Wed, 10 May 2006 10:00:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k4AA0hwq025682; Wed, 10 May 2006 06:00:43 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1e4841eb0605092016r701e9bb3uc3e02dbd3e0ebf6a@mail.gmail.com> References: <1e4841eb0605091838u39a46dfw81cc9f452d9722b6@mail.gmail.com> <1147230589.45319.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1e4841eb0605092016r701e9bb3uc3e02dbd3e0ebf6a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 06:00:42 -0400 To: "m m" , Joe Marcus Clarke From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.3 Cc: 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 10:00:47 -0000 At 11:16 PM -0400 5/9/06, m m wrote: > > ... and in my opinion better name match to use /mnt/temp >for "temporary mount" and /mnt/floppy and /mnt/disk and >/mnt/VOLUME, etc for "other" mount points... This would have worked FreeBSD had described /mnt in that manner sometime long ago. Right now that would be a major disruptive change. Just imagine what happens to all those people (and ports!) which are using /mnt in the way it has been documented for all these years. They'll be mounting and unmounting things at /mnt, and the system will be auto-mounting and auto-unmounting things at /mnt/whatever. Sounds like a nightmare to me. I think /media is probably as good a name as we're going to come up with. If I understand this correctly, that is the name which is used by HAL-ish things on some other unixes (although not MacOS 10, but IMO that is okay. As a MacOS 10 user, I know it'd be pretty easy to for me to create a symlink from /media -> /Volumes). disclaimer: I haven't looked at the patch to say whether *it* is correct, but the name for the directory seems OK. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA