Re: [Fwd: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL]

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 08:06:38PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:04 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

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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.



just doing a quick look around, I see that apple use /Volumes for this..

Yes. I've heard at least one objection to an uppercase directory name,
but /Volumes or /volumes is certainly a possibility.

IMO being the same modulo case would be a bad idea. Edit-distance
one-bit seems a bit small. For that matter, this being largely a GUI
thing, what Linux does is a heck of a lot more relevent than what MacOS
does since we don't and realisticaly never will share a GUI with MacOS.

-- Brooks

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