Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 21:38:35 -0400 From: "m m" <needacoder@gmail.com> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org, "Maxime Henrion" <mux@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD Message-ID: <1e4841eb0605091838u39a46dfw81cc9f452d9722b6@mail.gmail.com>
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>> Since the overall consensus is to add a root directory called /media to >> accommodate removable media mount points (e.g. those managed by HAL), I >> have drawn up the following patch. Since I am a ports/doc committer, >> could a src committer approve this patch so that I can commit it? Thanks. >> >> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/media.diff > > Even though I'm quite reluctant to add root directories in general, > this one sounds like a sane idea. The name is generic enough to > my taste, so we can hope we're not going to need to add other > directories for that purpose. Besides, anything that can help us > catch up a bit on the HAL side is good in my opinion. So, this > looks good to me. My understanding is that such a directory already exists - /mnt At least this is what "man hier" says about it: /mnt/ empty directory commonly used by system administrators as a temporary mount point is "temporary" somehow different from "removable" in this case?
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