On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:55 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > 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.
I'd second this, this is short enough and that's what I'm currently using :-) Kudos to the porting team \o/ -- Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer
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