Re: Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD

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.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@xxxxxxx
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@xxxxxxxxxxx
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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