From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 8 22:04:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1185C16A401; Mon, 8 May 2006 22:04:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from a50.ironport.com (a50.ironport.com [63.251.108.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A7543D46; Mon, 8 May 2006 22:04:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from unknown (HELO [10.251.19.131]) ([10.251.19.131]) by a50.ironport.com with ESMTP; 08 May 2006 15:04:47 -0700 Message-ID: <445FC07E.6080702@elischer.org> Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 15:04:46 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <445F9B85.3060907@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <445F9B85.3060907@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 22:04:48 -0000 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >-----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 >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. > > just doing a quick look around, I see that apple use /Volumes for this.. >Joe > > > >- -- >Joe Marcus Clarke >FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org >FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome >http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) >Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > >iD8DBQFEX5uFb2iPiv4Uz4cRArXiAJ9kXbtvgkzg/XYTLlaZ0dy+7JpcxgCffVoW >u3fWVf4XgUh6B9r0GYY6G9o= >=q8Uf >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >