[Fwd: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL]

[Brooks Davis]

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 at FreeBSD.org>
> > >Organization: FreeBSD, Inc.
> > >To: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> > >
> > >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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