From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 13:03:32 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 6F33516A411; Wed, 10 May 2006 13:03:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from flz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org (xbsd.org [82.233.2.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C197143D68; Wed, 10 May 2006 13:03:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C968C11653; Wed, 10 May 2006 15:03:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07264-02; Wed, 10 May 2006 15:03:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mayday.esat.net (mayday.esat.net [193.95.134.156]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4243C115F7; Wed, 10 May 2006 15:03:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Florent Thoumie To: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez 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> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-saymLjU5qlcF3B1g7kML" Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 14:03:03 +0100 Message-Id: <1147266183.27229.2.camel@mayday.esat.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke , m m 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 13:03:32 -0000 --=-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 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--