Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 20:06:38 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL] Message-ID: <1147133198.84119.18.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <445FC07E.6080702@elischer.org> References: <445F9B85.3060907@FreeBSD.org> <445FC07E.6080702@elischer.org>
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--=-tBELenoDBm8/eNdNEi+z Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:04 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Forwarding to arch@ at brooks' suggestion. > > > >- -------- Original Message -------- > >Subject: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL > >Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 13:50:10 -0400 > >From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> > >Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. > >To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > > > >I'm not sure if this is the best list for this, so if there is a better > >one, please let me know. > > > >jylefort and I have been working on porting HAL > >(http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal) to FreeBSD. The port > >is working quite well. One of the things it wants to do is mount > >removable media such as CDs, USB sticks, etc. to mount points under > >/media. Some of us had discussed alternatives to /media (e.g. > >/mnt/media and ${PREFIX}/media), but these were ruled out. /mnt/media > >is bad since /mnt is reserved for temporary mounts. ${PREFIX}/media > >(i.e. /usr/local/media) just doesn't seem like an appropriate place for > >file system mount points. In fact, any other location other than /media > >will require a lot of additional work in HAL-dependent ports to get > >those ports to recognize HAL-controlled mounts on FreeBSD. > > > >To that end, I would like to add a /media to FreeBSD. I would like to > >add this to hier(7) as well as BSD.root.mtree. Would this be > >permissible? Thanks. > > =20 > > >=20 > just doing a quick look around, I see that apple use /Volumes for this.. Yes. I've heard at least one objection to an uppercase directory name, but /Volumes or /volumes is certainly a possibility. Joe --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-tBELenoDBm8/eNdNEi+z 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) iD8DBQBEX90Ob2iPiv4Uz4cRAsmbAJ9C1Ff7N4jyQikRoVrpW5np7IGhKACfX3ME 4iE9T0MU2r5weTF7z3J6UH4= =vxEI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-tBELenoDBm8/eNdNEi+z--
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