[Fwd: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL]

[Scott Long]

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.
>>>
>>>- -------- Original Message --------
>>>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.
> 
> Joe
> 

I personally object to directory names that are longer than 5 characters
and shorter than 10 characters.  I also object to the use of vowels,
most constanants, and any ascii character value lower than 255.  All
directories should also default to mode 000 unless they are created
under another directory, in which case they should be 0000.  I'm sure
that these are all perfectly reasonable objections that we can all agree
to.

Scott