Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 14:03:03 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org> To: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@gmail.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>, m m <needacoder@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD Message-ID: <1147266183.27229.2.camel@mayday.esat.net> In-Reply-To: <52b3de6f0605100557u792b74b8i75bf1a01fd868d7@mail.gmail.com> References: <1e4841eb0605091838u39a46dfw81cc9f452d9722b6@mail.gmail.com> <1147230589.45319.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1e4841eb0605092016r701e9bb3uc3e02dbd3e0ebf6a@mail.gmail.com> <1147237741.45319.50.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <52b3de6f0605100557u792b74b8i75bf1a01fd868d7@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-saymLjU5qlcF3B1g7kML Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:57 -0300, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote: > On 5/10/06, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote: > > It's not backwards compatible if system administrators are already usin= g > > 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 port= s > > that expect removable media mounts to exist under /media. >=20 > I don't have strong reasons to object against /media, I just think > that this covers applications' errors assuming /media exists and > contains removable media mount points. Or, more specifically, HAL's > assumption of /media, instead of accepting some configuration > parameter telling where it should look for removable-media mount > points. >=20 > Personally I'd mount removable media under /mnt (as I always did) and > change HAL to accept configuration like this, specifying where it > should look for instead of assuming /media. Perhaps this affects less > users. /mnt is meant to be used as a mount point, /media will be a directory containing mount points. The main idea behind using /media is to reduce the porting efforts, read Marcus' posts. PS: This really is bikeshedding. --=20 Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer --=-saymLjU5qlcF3B1g7kML 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) iD8DBQBEYeSGMxEkbVFH3PQRAiEBAJwL+Rb426D2mg4TwyoXjHlThm+vPACfYYXw a2WYzlUxQWJLx4dKxBx2m8E= =aAUz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-saymLjU5qlcF3B1g7kML--
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