[Fwd: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL]

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Forwarding to arch@ at brooks' suggestion.

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Subject: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 13:50:10 -0400
From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: FreeBSD, Inc.
To: freebsd-hackers@xxxxxxxxxxx

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.

Joe



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