From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 12:28:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F95616A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:28:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from freshaire.wiz.com (freshaire.wiz.com [66.143.183.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF76A4400E for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:27:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@wiz.com) Received: from freshaire.wiz.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freshaire.wiz.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id hAPKRqGg032443 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:27:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from marc@freshaire.wiz.com) Received: (from marc@localhost) by freshaire.wiz.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hAPKRqL9032442 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:27:52 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:27:52 -0600 From: Marc Wiz To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20031125202752.GG30833@wiz.com> References: <20031121144116.A712D7E40E@server2.messagingengine.com> <200311252111.30988.murphyf+fhs@f-m.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200311252111.30988.murphyf+fhs@f-m.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: Re: FreeBSD and FHS summary X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:28:52 -0000 On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:11:28PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > > Before going back to the FHS list, I'd like to summarize what I think the > opinions here were. Please correct me if I'm horribly off-base. > > The idea of defining a default directory to hold directories for recurring > temporary mount points is considered to be a good one, though it's use should > be optional. Putting these in / would be a bad idea, because it would clutter > up the root directory. Putting these in /mnt would be a bad idea because lots > of people expect that directory to be empty to be used for temporary ad hoc > mount points. Also, the FHS shouldn't try to define all the names of these > mount point directories. > > Putting this directory into /usr, /tmp, or any of the other well-defined > top-level directories doesn't make any sense. But perhaps a directory in /var > would be a good idea, but some people thought that it sounded wierd, and > there were some technical [1] reasons [2] why it might be a bad idea. > > Some recommended top-level directories were: > > /fs, /tfs, /mounts, /volumes, /mnts > May I suggest /tmounts or /tmnts? If people are concerned about lots of directories being created in /'s file system then the top-level directory could itself be a file system. It would be nice if the name of the directory could be obtained via sysconf (3). Marc -- Marc Wiz marc@wiz.com Yes, that really is my last name.