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. > > 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 -- 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
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