Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 06:00:42 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: "m m" <needacoder@gmail.com>, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD Message-ID: <p06230928c087680b93a5@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <1e4841eb0605092016r701e9bb3uc3e02dbd3e0ebf6a@mail.gmail.com> References: <1e4841eb0605091838u39a46dfw81cc9f452d9722b6@mail.gmail.com> <1147230589.45319.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1e4841eb0605092016r701e9bb3uc3e02dbd3e0ebf6a@mail.gmail.com>
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At 11:16 PM -0400 5/9/06, m m wrote: > > ... and in my opinion better name match to use /mnt/temp >for "temporary mount" and /mnt/floppy and /mnt/disk and >/mnt/VOLUME, etc for "other" mount points... This would have worked FreeBSD had described /mnt in that manner sometime long ago. Right now that would be a major disruptive change. Just imagine what happens to all those people (and ports!) which are using /mnt in the way it has been documented for all these years. They'll be mounting and unmounting things at /mnt, and the system will be auto-mounting and auto-unmounting things at /mnt/whatever. Sounds like a nightmare to me. I think /media is probably as good a name as we're going to come up with. If I understand this correctly, that is the name which is used by HAL-ish things on some other unixes (although not MacOS 10, but IMO that is okay. As a MacOS 10 user, I know it'd be pretty easy to for me to create a symlink from /media -> /Volumes). disclaimer: I haven't looked at the patch to say whether *it* is correct, but the name for the directory seems OK. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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