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Date:      Mon, 08 May 2006 15:04:46 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL]
Message-ID:  <445FC07E.6080702@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <445F9B85.3060907@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <445F9B85.3060907@FreeBSD.org>

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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

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>Forwarding to arch@ at brooks' suggestion.
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>- -------- 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.
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>

just doing a quick look around, I see that apple use /Volumes for this..

>Joe
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>Joe Marcus Clarke
>FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
>FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
>http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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