Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 11:55:15 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL Message-ID: <20060508185515.GB21933@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <445F84D2.9040207@FreeBSD.org> References: <445F84D2.9040207@FreeBSD.org>
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--z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:50:10PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the best list for this, so if there is a better > one, please let me know. arch@ would probably be slightly closer. > 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. >=20 > 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. It's a logical name for such a set of mounts and IMO we need this feature. I say go for it. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEX5QTXY6L6fI4GtQRAqsSAJ9giBw33JQOut/NegroQsExAo41JwCgh2Pb wvHsjkP946HNzbbEiUgN4Jo= =1B8W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8--
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